come up trumps

Bedeutung

to succeed or help when people did not expect it

Unerwartet Erfolg haben oder helfen.

Beispiele

1. 1Our quiet neighbour came up trumps and fixed the boiler on Christmas Day.
2. 2I didn't expect much from the cheap hotel, but it came up trumps.
3. 3Everyone expected Leo to forget the cake, but he came up trumps with a perfect three-layer one.
4. 4If the bank comes up trumps with a loan, we can finally open the shop.
5. 5We needed one more volunteer for the fair, and Gran came up trumps by running the cake stall all day.

Grammatik

Das Verb come ist unregelmäßig: came, come. Das Nomen trumps steht immer im Plural. Die Variante turn up trumps bedeutet dasselbe.