Shes Up to Her Old Tricks Again

trick

( tricks plural & tertiary person present ) ( tricking nowadays participle ) ( tricked past tense & past participle )

i northward-count A trick is an action that is intended to deceive someone.
We are playing a trick on a man who keeps bothering me.

2 verb If someone tricks you, they deceive you, frequently in order to make you exercise something.
Stephen is going to be pretty upset when he finds out how you tricked him... V n
His family tricked him into going to Islamic republic of pakistan, and once he was in that location, they took away his passport... V n into -ing/n
His real purpose is to trick his style into your home to see what he can steal. 5 way prep/adv

3 n-count A trick is a clever or skilful activity that someone does in gild to entertain people.
He shows me card tricks.

four north-count A trick is a clever way of doing something.
Tiffany revamped her sitting room with uncomplicated decorative tricks.

5
→ confidence trick
→ conjuring play a trick on
→ hat-pull a fast one on

vi If something does the play a joke on, it achieves what you wanted.
Informal
♦ practice the trick phrase V inflects
Sometimes a few choice words will do the play a joke on.

7 If someone tries every trick in the book, they endeavour every possible matter that they tin think of in social club to achieve something.
INFORMAL
♦ every trick in the book phrase v PHR
Companies are using every flim-flam in the book to stay one step in front of their competitors.

8 If you lot say that something is a trick of the light, yous mean that what you are seeing is an upshot caused by the way that the low-cal falls on things, and does non actually exist in the mode that it appears.
♦ a trick of the light phrase v-link PHR
Her head appears to exist on fire but that is only a play a trick on of the low-cal.

9 If yous say that someone does non miss a trick, you mean that they ever know what is happening and accept reward of every situation.
Breezy
♦ sb doesn't miss a play tricks phrase V inflects, with brd-neg

x The tricks of the trade are the quick and clever ways of doing something that are known past people who regularly practise a particular activity.
♦ tricks of the merchandise phrase flim-flam inflects

11 If y'all say that someone is up to their tricks or up to their old tricks, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in the quack or mendacious way in which they typically behave.
INFORMAL
♦ upwardly to 1's (sometime) tricks phrase five-link PHR (disapproval) I have no respect for my father who, having remarried, is however up to his former tricks.

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he could sell sand to an arab	exp.	he is a very good seller
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steal someone's thunder	exp.	take credit for another person's accomplishment
the duck's nuts	exp.	the best, the dog's bollocks , the bee'south knees
the bee's knees	exp.	the duck'south basics, the best, the canis familiaris's bollocks
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