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bag of tricks

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bag of tricks

Fig. a collection of special techniques or methods. What have you got in your bag of tricks that could help me with this problem? Here comes Mother with her bag of tricks. I'm sure she can help us.

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somebody's bag of tricks

all the clever methods by which someone achieves something It remains to be seen what this side will pull out of their bag of tricks for the semi-final.

See pull something out of the bag, be a bundle of nerves

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bag of tricks

One's stock of resources and stratagems, as in Mom can fix anything-you never know what she will pull out of her bag of tricks. Alluding to the magician's bag of equipment for performing magic tricks, this term was first recorded in 1694, when Jean de La Fontaine, in one of his fables, has a fox carry a sac des ruses ("bag of tricks").

See also: bag, of, trick