Gambit

Her son had probably been the first to see it–his training hadn’t overlooked that obvious gambit.

Am I to be sent back to England, there to starve?” It’s a clumsy gambit, but it works.

The captain mumbled, “I come from Miran.” The man returned the gambit, grimly.

I’m glad you could come,' Rubber Ed told him, resuming his own seat, 'although in these cases the student's mother or father-' This was the opening gambit, of course.

It was a little conversational flourish, a gambit in the polite game.

If instructed to inform the King diplomatically that the subsidy of the month could not at present be increased, he would ring up Mecca and say, “Lord, Lord, there is no more money.” As for lying, he was not merely incapable of it, but also shrewd enough to know that it was the worst gambit against players whose whole life had passed in a mist of deceits, and whose perceptions were of the finest.

I am not speaking metaphorically; nor is this the opening gambit of some melodramatic, riddling, grubby appeal for pity.

“Do you think us unaware of how you were driven back here by your enemies?” My most dangerous gambit.