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sleight of hand

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sleight of hand
1. ways of deceiving people which you need skill to do. Some mathematical sleight of hand was required to make the figures add up.
2. quick, clever movements of your hands, especially when performing magic tricks. With impressive sleight of hand he produced two pigeons out of his top hat.
See also: hand
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An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
You could have done it by sleight of hand in a hundred other ways besides that pretence of putting a paper donkey's tail to Fischer's coat.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
He was adept at sleight of hand tricks, and no bolder or more ruthless crook ever lived.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Leroux, Gaston View in context
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