26 Metaphors for trick

The author's trick of moralising at every possible opportunity, his abundant use of similes more proper to epic than dramatic language, the absence of all womanly grace in the female characters,these are points in which the present play may be compared with Chapman's published tragedies.

" ABIGAIL CROSS AND NATHANIEL CROSSThe "garles desembling"Daniel Wescot's wagerThe trick that nobody else could do (Kateran Branch, the accuser of the Fairfield women, was a young servant in Daniel Wescot's household.)

The first ring, and the second ring, was now but a trick of the prompter's bellwhich had been, like the note of the cuckoo, a phantom of a voice, no hand seen or guessed at which ministered to its warning.

The tricks played upon me by my senses of taste, touch, smell, and sight were the source of great mental anguish.

Yet his tricks, things that he had done with the utmost ease a thousand times, had been a succession of blunders, rather mirth-provoking than mystifying to the audience.

Joe's fire tricks were now the talk of the theatrical and circus worlds, and he received many offers to leave Sampson Brothers' Show and star by himself.

Another trick I tried upon him, which he innocently came into also; his name was Ismael, whom they call Muley, or Moley; so I called him: "Moley," said I, "our patron's guns are on board the boat; can you not get a little powder and shot?

At present the 'earnest gaze' trick is generally sufficient, or, where it fails, a kick on the shin.

This singular mannerism appears in his earliest writings; it is most marked at the time of the Rambler; whilst in the Lives of the Poets, although I think that the trick of inversion has become commoner, the other peculiarities have been so far softened as (in my judgment, at least), to be inoffensive.

Not Mac's inertia alone, but his trick of sticking out his jaw became an offence, his rasping voice a torture.

A more objectionable trick was his habit not only of asking preposterous or indiscreet questions, but of setting people by the ears out of sheer curiosity.

gastar, to spend; to display; como las gasta, how he acts; how he comports himself; what his tricks are. gato, m., cat.

Now where a severe punishment is the consequence of a failure, there might seem to be some reasonableness in helping your companions out of difficulty, though even then such tricks are departures from honorable dealing.

Tricks were the fashion; if it now be spent, 'Tis time enough at Easter to invent; No man will make up a new suit for Lent.

'All tricks are either knavish or childish,' iii. 396.

What new tricks were the damned English up to now?

Even the most innocent tricks of emphasis are to him snares of the Evil One.

This trick is an application of the fallacy non causae ut causae.

"That little trick is the biggest lace buyer in the country....

He followed his master like a dog, and his tricks and funny doings were a continual delight to Kellyan and the few friends he had in the mountains.

The trick that he hit upon was the stalest, the most threadbare, the most commonplace and vulgar that one can imagine.

He wondered whether this new trick was the result of his business ventures, his sly charities, or his approach toward the suggestive age of forty.

This ancient trick becomes the more irritating the longer the quiproquo is dragged out.]

The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast a chestnut, is only a piece of shrewd malice in that turpissima bestia, which humbles us so sadly by its similarity to us.

The box trick was a great attraction for the circus, and Joe was in higher favor than before.

26 Metaphors for  trick