play a trick on

VERB
  1. deceive somebody
    We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week
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How To Use play a trick on In A Sentence

  • The boys hid Jone's bike to play a trick on him.
  • I thought I'd play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me.
  • I thought I'd play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me.
  • Darwin knew he had a problem here, and the original idea to play a trick on the idea of selectionist explanation is a clever piece of legerdemain, that has grown since into a new scientific shibboleth, an artifice of logic, and one that has never been verified properly in practice, and which certainly fails any empirical test as we examine the reality of religion in world history. Darwiniana
  • One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a trick on Sheriff Brown.
  • One night, my two friends and I decided to play a trick on Sheriff Brown.
  • Before traveling to the colony, when still he had no suspicion that his destiny was going to play a trick on him, or that he would end up in cane fields in the Antilles, he had been invited to Versailles to one of the parties in honor of the new dauphine, a young blonde of fourteen, who yawned openly in the rigid protocol of the French court. 'Island Beneath the Sea'
  • He was sure he was either going crazy or that Billy, his overfed and undereducated co-worker, was trying to play a trick on him.
  • I don't play a trick on innocent people.
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