wild card

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unknown quantity; something unpredictable

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In card games, the best card you can draw is a wild card. That’s because a wild card can have any value you want it to have, so it can help you win with any hand. A wild card is an unpredictable element of the game. Even if your opponent plans his hand very carefully and makes all the right moves, if you draw a wild card it can throw everything off.

The singer Taylor Swift thinks that love is a wild card. In other words, love is an unpredictable element in life. You can’t control it or plan it. Sometimes love comes easily, sometimes we look for love for a long time, and sometimes it arrives when we least expect it.

When you call something a wild card, you mean that it is unpredictable. In sports, for instance, a wild card is a new player who might do well, or might not. Until we see what kind of a player he is, he’s an unknown quantity on the team, a wild card.

Do you agree with Taylor Swift that love is a wild card? What else is a wild card in life?

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“I know my brother is coming home for Christmas, but my sister is a wild card. I have no clue what her plans are.”

“At this time of year, the weather is always a wild card. You can’t count on it to be sunny and warm.”

“No matter how carefully you try to plan your life, some wild card can always come along and throw everything off.”

Winners

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	Something unplanned by Manu4
	an unpredictable factor by sajithbc
	the wild card means the card you cannot controll by monacovalentina
	The unexpected. You can´t take control. by ravaiano
	something that you cannot apply your rules to by sabeel
	something unpredictable by [Cheshire_cat]
	something one cannot plan ahead - cannot be certain about it by DecapitatedLucia
	a person or thing whose behaviour or effect is difficult to predict by chomo
	An unpredictable element,something that cannot be planned. by Gaby313

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