Sentence examples for come up trumps from inspiring English sources

It will therefore be possible to work out which direction the neutralino that caused it to recoil came from and thus engage in a form of dark-matter astronomy.And if Boulby does come up trumps, then it will be a delightful victory for cheap and cheerful science over the billion-dollar variety.Geoffrey Carr: science and technology editor, The Economist.

Just when you thought the show couldn't get any more miserable, the writers come up trumps and produce a new way of making us depressed - a paedophile storyline.

"They have come up trumps," he said.

Even in politics, they have come up trumps.

Star Alliance air miles had come up trumps.

Not all the oil companies will come up trumps.

Sometimes, in history, blood lines come up trumps.

Paddy is a worker and those ones always come up trumps in the end.

That's a game where an ace and a king will always come up trumps.

But the new team has come up trumps with some decent wines at extraordinarily good prices.

It's the surest hand of cards that we know will always come up trumps.