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sleight of hand

NOUN
  1. manual dexterity in the execution of tricks

How To Use sleight of hand In A Sentence

  • The company accounts show a little financial sleight of hand.
  • My issue is not so much with my company, but with the government's sleight of hand over this. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.
  • He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: ‘Origami is real magic!’
  • Convenient oversights like this are all part of that sleight of hand this administration specializes in to pursue its aims.
  • Sadly, the move is a sleight of hand that will make no difference to how much it actually costs to heat and power our homes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sleight of hand was impressive. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a gang whose members are masters of subterfuge and sleight of hand, and they play for big money, jewels, banks and other high-security projects.
  • He used a very old fairground trick of sleight of hand. The Sun
  • It was taken by sleight of hand and then sold to a pawnbroker. The Sun
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