Every trick in the book

Definition

trick /trÇk/ n ၁။ (က) လွည့္စားမႈ။ လွည့္ကြက္။ ပရိယာယ္။ ဥပါယ္တံမ်ဥ္။ They had to think of a trick to get past the guards. ❍ a trick question ❍ Don't you ever pull that trick again! ❍ ( fig ) It must be a trick of the light (ie that makes one see sth that is not there). See also CONFIDENCE TRICK, DIRTY TRICK (ခ) က်ီစယ္ေနာက္ေျပာင္မႈ။ လွည့္ကြက္။ လွည့္စားမႈ။ play a trick on sb ❍ The children's favourite trick is filling the sugar bowl with salt. ❍ I could have sworn I gave it to her yesterday — my memory must be playing tricks. ၂။ ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈျပသျခင္း။ လက္လွည့္။ မ်က္လွည့္။ conjuring tricks ❍ card tricks ❍ She had trained her dog to do tricks (eg to stand on its back legs). ၃။ (C esp sing ) အထာ။ အခ်က္။ a KNACK ၁ : The trick is to hold your breath while you aim. ❍ I've never learnt the trick of folding shirts properly. ၄။ ႏႈတ္က်ဳိးျခင္းစေသာအ႐ိုးစြဲေနေသာအက်င့္။ အက်င့္ပါျခင္း။ အထာ။ a MANNERISM ၁ : He has an annoying trick of saying ‘You know?’ after every sentence. ❍ My car has developed the trick of stalling on steep hills. ၅။ (ဖဲတစ္ပြဲတြင္ တစ္)ဖူ။ take/ win a trick. See also HAT TRICK v ၁။ လိမ္သည္။ လွည့္စားသည္။ ပရိယာယ္ဆင္သည္။ You've been tricked. ၂။ (က) ~ sb into sth/ doing sth မာယာႏွင့္ ျဖားသည္။ နားလွည့္ပါးလွည့္လုပ္သည္။ She tricked him into marriage/ into marrying her. (ခ) ~ sb out of sth ႏွစ္ေပါက္တစ္ေပါက္႐ိုက္သည္။ ႏွပ္ခ်သည္။ Her partner tried to trick her out of her share. ❏ sb's bag/ box of tricks [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦး ပိုင္ႏိုင္သည့္ နည္းနာနိႆယေပါင္းစံု။ ❏ be up to one's (old) tricks [ IDM ] ( infml ) ထံုးစံအတိုင္း ယခင္အခ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး ထပ္ခ်ဳိးသည္။ There's some money missing from my purse — you've been up to your tricks again, haven't you? ❏ every trick in the book [ IDM ] နည္းကုန္လမ္းကုန္။ နည္းပရိယာယ္ အဖံုဖံု။ He'll try every trick in the book to stop you winning. ❏ have a trick up one's sleeve [ IDM ] (လိုအပ္လွ်င္အသင့္ထုတ္သံုးႏိုင္ရန္)ဝွက္ဖဲကိုင္ထား သည္။ ❏ trickery /-ǝri/ n [U] လိမ္လည္လွည့္စားမႈ။ ❏ trick sb/ oneself/ sth out (in/ with sth) [ PHRV ] … ႏွင့္အက်ဆင္သည္။ She was tricked out in fur jacket and boots. ❏ trick or treat [ IDM ] ( esp US ) Hallowe'en ညတြင္ ကေလးမ်ားက အိမ္တကာလည္၍ အိမ္ရွင္က မေပး၊ မေကြၽးလွ်င္ ေျခာက္ျပမည္ဟု က်ီစယ္သည့္စကား။ ❏ the tricks of the trade [ IDM ] လုပ္ငန္း(အလိုက္ ရိွေသာ) အထာ။ She's only been with us a month so she's still learning the tricks of the trade. ❏ trickster /-stǝ(r)/ n လူလိမ္။ ကလိမ္ကက်စ္ေကာင္။ ❏ tricky adj ( -ier, -iest ) (က) ခဲရာခဲဆစ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ ေသာ။ a tricky situation/ problem/ decision ❍ Getting ashore here is tricky. (ခ) မယံုရေသာ။ ဉာဏ္မ်ားေသာ။ လူလည္က်ေသာ။ He's a tricky character to do business with.

Examples

1. [a dirty/cruel/nasty trick] : It was a very dirty trick to play on anyone.
2. [a dirty tricks campaign] : They had carried out a dirty tricks campaign against a rival airline.
3. [play a trick on someone] : I thought he was playing a trick on me.
4. [your eyes are/your memory is playing tricks on you] : Was it her
5. or were my eyes playing tricks on me?
6. For my next trick
7. I will make the balls disappear.
8. [do a trick] : He does this great trick with a hat and two rabbits.
9. Could she really see a boat
10. or was it just a trick of the light?
11. There’s a trick to folding up this umbrella.
12. [the trick is] : If you want to see her
13. the trick is to go early.