to be against someone or something
to arrange something in a manner that either someone will gain a wrong disadvantage or a person would get an unfair advantage
to be deceitful in achieving a goal
to influence the results in an unfair manner by way of making arrangements to specifically do so
The manager had stacked the deck against me but I was able to prove through the system that the error could be apportioned to me.
I am going to stack the deck so that you get an opportunity to audition for this part even though the selection committee has made their mind.
Don’t stack the deck in this manner so that your kin gets the better seats during this travel.
She had stacked the deck in order to gain an advantage in the party elections.
If you have so many people from his community in the jury, it stacks the deck.
There is no origin for this idiom
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