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French term or phrase:	à vous la main
English translation:	It's your deal!
Entered by:	TesCor -

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2:29pm May 20, 2005

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French term or phrase: à vous la main

Brochure for a poker set:

Entre amis ou en famille, vous jouerez les as du poker avec ce set vraiment hors du commun! À vous la main!

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Clarification request(s) and response

TesCor - (asker): 2:31pm May 20, 2005: I don't know the first thing about poker. But what about "it's your call!"

It's your deal!

Explanation:
main in casinos is referring to a deal

Selected response from:

Michael Bailey
Austria

Note from asker to answerer

Thank you Mr. Bailey!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +11

It's your deal!

Michael Bailey

4 +1

Get dealing!

Conor McAuley

4 +1

Asker's suggestion

Christopher RH

3 +1

Deal away!

Katherine Hodkinson

2 +1

your deal/it's your (turn to) deal

writeaway

Explanation below

Henriett Varga

Answers

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +11

It's your deal!

Explanation:
main in casinos is referring to a deal

Michael Bailey
Austria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Note from asker to answerer

Thank you Mr. Bailey!

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

your deal/it's your (turn to) deal

Explanation:
not at all sure.

writeaway
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Deal away!

Explanation:
just a thought. it really needs somehthing like "the ball's in your court", but with a cards metaphor...

Katherine Hodkinson
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:

English

20 mins confidence:

Explanation below

Explanation:
I have two ideas...
In card games "main" means "hand" and a set of playing cards held by one person in a game is a "winning hand". So maybe, if you could find an expression with the idea of winning.
or
main=hand means a game of cards.
Ex: "We played a couple of hands of poker."
In that case I would suggest: It is your turn to play.

Henriett Varga
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:

Hungarian

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Asker's suggestion

Explanation:
I like Asker's suggestion "it's your call".

"A vous la main" is used to hand off to another person (if I recall correctly, it's a formal term used in aviation to pass controls from one pilot to another).

Although it's obviously a play on "deal" here, I think the (related) play on "call" is more natural in English.

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Note added at 22 mins (2005-05-20 14:52:08 GMT)
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By the way, if anyone with knowledge of these things could confirm or correct the \"aviation\" issue above, I\'d appreciate it!

Christopher RH
France
Native speaker of:

English

22 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Get dealing!

Explanation:
Maybe "Lay your bets now" or something similar would be a better way to adapt it.

Get your poker faces ready?

Conor McAuley
France
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 6

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French: à vous la main

English translation: It's your deal!