beggar-my-neighbor
- n a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
- Following the failure in Geneva, there was the usual rush to gloom, the usual voices warning darkly of the risk of a beggar-my-neighbor protectionism, redolent of the 1930s.
- Government leaders in the Common Market are also angered by what many regard as a beggar-my-neighbor effect of Nixon's package on them.