Collocations for "trick"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "trick" in context.
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trick
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [magic, card, number, mental, visual] trick
- [conjuring, juggling] tricks
- a [simple, great, clever, new] trick
- a [malicious, nasty, horrible, mean] trick
- can't teach an old dog new tricks
- a trick of the [light, shadows]
- play a trick on [the teacher, your parents, April Fool's day]
- be [fooled, deceived, taken in] by a trick
- [teach, show] your [friend, little brother] a trick
- played a [nasty] trick on me!
- my [mind, brain] is playing tricks on me!
- your [eyes, ears] must be playing tricks on you!
- [use, employ, resort to] tricks
- learn the tricks of the trade
- the tricks of the (carpentry) trade
- the trick is to
- the trick of [making, getting] (people to like you)
- there's a trick to (doing) it
- scored a hat trick
- slang: turns tricks for [money, drugs, food]
- [an old, a popular, an easy, a difficult] card trick
- learned [a new, an amazing, an astounding] card trick
- is [terrible, good, great] at card tricks
- an act [with, featuring] card tricks
- a [book, video] that teaches card tricks
- that card trick is [difficult] to pull off
- (not) [amazed, impressed] by the card trick
- the card trick amazed the [crowd, audience]
- trick him into [getting, going, doing, believing, saying]
- tricked me by [claiming, pretending, saying, telling]
- trick and [deceive, exploit]
- trick or [force, coerce, deceive, manipulate]
- (cannot) be tricked easily
- tricked out of their [money, savings]
- tricked by [conmen, a legal advisor]
- trick out your [car, stereo, house]
- trick photography
- has a trick [knee, hip]
- it was a trick question
- is that [a, some kind of] trick question?
- play a trick shot
'trick' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Halloween
- bite
- book
- card trick
- cheap
- con
- confidence
- crude
- cunning
- decoy
- dirty
- expose
- fall
- filthy
- fool
- however
- illusion
- impress
- killer
- knee
- magic
- marketing
- merely
- perspective
- prey
- psychology
- rotten
- sap
- scam
- shall
- skateboard
- sleeve
- snare
- sock
- sweet
- visual