shuffle the cards

Definitions

1. 1

   To reorganize or restructure an organization or situation.

   • Things often look as though they have radically changed; whereas they have just taken on opposite appearances, as they so often do, to shuffle the cards and set people on a side track.
   • It shuffled the cards in our region and changed the perception that Israel is an undefeatable country.
2. 2

   To randomize an ongoing process.

   • Progress in one quarter only implies retrogression in another; human endeavor with its victories and its failures means no more than that the Absolute is shuffling the cards.
   • This is the same as shuffling the cards and adding diversity to the system, that otherwise would have been excessively influenced by the choice of the initial population.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shuffle, cards.

   • Shuffle the cards and deal out four cards to each player.

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