Metaphorical Uses
In some card games the card suits have a dominance order: club (lowest) - diamond - heart - spade (highest). That led to "in spades" being used to mean "more than expected, in abundance, very much".
Other expressions drawn from bridge and similar games include "strong suit" (used to refer to any area of personal strength) and "following suit" (in the sense of "going along with the crowd").
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