Collocations withtrick
These are words often used in combination withtrick.
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clever trick
He played many a clever trick on us, but never a deceitful or an underhand one.
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dirty trick
A dirty trick has been used to keep us out of the codecision procedure.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
little trick
In fact, the use of the tag model needs a little trick.
From theCambridge English Corpus
magic trick
It is a sort of magic trick—that somehow you will spend a lot more money here, but you are not going to reduce anything else there.
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mean trick
Is not that a shabby, mean trick which is played on these old-age pensioners?
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old trick
This is the old trick of my party.
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simple trick
To prevent that a separator is expected before the first f permutable element, we make use of the following simple trick.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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