Idiot's Delight

English

So called because of the low chance of winning the game.

Idiot's Delight (uncountable)

Any of various games of solitaire or patience.
- 1910, The Cosmopolitan, Volume 50, p. 761,
  On the other hand, I know one of the biggest operators in New York who finds his recreation after a hard day’s fight with the market in solitaire—‘Idiot’s Delight’ is his especial game.
- 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 2, p. 28,
  They were fabulously well-to-do, and descended from Americans who had all but wrecked the planet with a form of Idiot’s Delight—obsessively turning money into power, and then power back into money again, and then money back into power again.

单词	Idiot's Delight
释义	Idiot's Delight English Etymology So called because of the low chance of winning the game. Noun Idiot's Delight (uncountable) Any of various games of solitaire or patience. 1910, The Cosmopolitan, Volume 50, p. 761, On the other hand, I know one of the biggest operators in New York who finds his recreation after a hard day’s fight with the market in solitaire—‘Idiot’s Delight’ is his especial game. 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 2, p. 28, They were fabulously well-to-do, and descended from Americans who had all but wrecked the planet with a form of Idiot’s Delight—obsessively turning money into power, and then power back into money again, and then money back into power again.
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