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I heard a usage last night that was new to me. In JIMMY THE GENT, a 1934 comedy starring Jimmy Cagney and Bette Davis, Davis states that another character has gone out for "a deck of cigarettes."
I kind of liked that. If a pack of cards can also be called a deck, why not a deck of cigarettes?
And it got me to thinking -- one could have, I suppose, a deck of chewing gum. A deck of baseball cards. A deck of lies. A deck of wolves.
But could you say that Frank, Dino, and Sammy were in the Rat Deck? Nah, that doesn't quite work.
But a deck of gum. That has a nice ring to it.
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