{"id":247903,"date":"2023-01-21T04:52:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=127363"},"modified":"2023-01-21T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:52:07","slug":"ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ace\/","title":{"rendered":"ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ace.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ace.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>An <strong>ace<\/strong> was originally the side of a dice marked with one spot. The word comes from Latin <em>as<\/em>, meaning \u2018unit\u2019. Since an ace is the card with the highest value in many card games, the word often suggests a sense of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>An ace was also a wartime fighter pilot who brought down many aircraft, and is now anyone who excels at something. In tennis an ace is a service that your opponent is unable to reach, and in golf it is a hole in one.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an <strong>ace up your sleeve<\/strong> (or in American English \u2013 an <strong>ace in the hole<\/strong>) you have a secret resource ready to use when you need it. A cheating card player might well hide an ace up their sleeve to use at an opprtune moment. To <strong>hold all the aces<\/strong> is to hve all the advantages, again from the idea of a card game: a player holding all four aces in their hand is likely to be in a winning position.<\/p>\n<p>A 1951 movie starring Kirk Douglas was titled Ace in The Hole \u2013 about a frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.<\/p>\n<p>To be <strong>within an ace<\/strong> of doing something is to be in the verge of doing it. This comes from the idea of an ace being a single spot on a playing card and hence a tine amount.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, New Xealand and South Africa, to be <strong>on your ace<\/strong> is to be on your own.<\/p>\n<p>This article is one in a series of articles on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/tag\/oewp\/\">Origins of English Words and Phrases<\/a>. 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