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play with a full deck

To behave in a manner suggesting that one is of normal intelligence, alert, and mentally stable.
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Someday our grandchildren will look up at us and say, "Where were you, Grandma, and what were you doing when you first realized that President Reagan was, er, not playing with a full deck?"

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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play with a full deckTo play a game with the availability of a team's full roster of players.
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