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Meaning of Idiot's Delight | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Any of various games of solitaire or patience.
    uncountable
  2. Any of various patience or solitaire card games.
    uncountable

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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