thin the herd

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. to cull, to reduce the size of a group idiomatic
    — Early on, if we came into a pot we came in for about three times the big blind because we generally wanted to thin the herd. Now we don't have to worry about that so much, for the herd will thin itself. It's smaller to begin with, since three or four players are gone, plus we're starting to get within sniffing distance of the money, so our foes will naturally start to tighten up.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, the, herd.

词形变化

thins the herd present,singular,third-person thinning the herd participle,present thinned the herd participle,past thinned the herd past
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