we are delt cards in life

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What does it mean?

[Naamplao]

What does it mean?

The phrase is "play the cards you are dealt" as in

Life is not easy. Sometimes you just have to play the cards that you are dealt.

Life is being compared to a game of poker. In the game you get several cards. Whether you win or lose depends on how well you play those cards.

Life gives you some advantages/disadvantages. You may be rich or poor. You may be handsome or ugly. You may have a good heart or a bad heart (both emotionally and physically). You may have intelligence or be a slow learner. You may be strong and healthy or weak and sickly. These are the cards that life deals to a person. What they make of these "cards" depends on the person who gets them.