cold deck

"Because you just slipped yourself a cold deck of tarots?"

Particularly when they took everything away and just left me lying there, naked, on the cold deck.

Once her feet touched the cold deck she bounded for the door.

We couldn't mark cards, deal from the bottom, an' ring in cold decks like the others.

"Aren't you dealing them to him from a cold deck, though, in doing that?"

He swung his feet off the bunk and placed them on the hard cold deck.

I set the trussed figure on the cold deck.

My back, pressed against that cold deck, was completely bare.

"I know this is an honest game, but sometimes a tray can have a cold deck under it."

More recently, the term has come to refer to a hand that plays out as if a cold deck has been in use.