Trick
An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
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Trick Quotations
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
Bill Maher
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
Maureen O'Hara
Jack the only trick I ever played on you was never tricking you at all.
Meg White
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
Tim Vine
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
Steve Wozniak
I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
Bill Bruford
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Bryant H. McGill
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Angela Carter
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.
Kieran Culkin
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
James Franco
But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
Buddy Rich
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.
Brad Paisley
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Trick Translations
trick in Danish is kneb
trick in Dutch is aanwensel, hebbelijkheid
trick in Italian is trucco, furberia
trick in Latin is frustro
trick in Portuguese is truque
trick in Spanish is resabio, ma a, truco
trick in Swedish is konst, lura, fuffens, tilltag, spratt
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