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sleight of hand

NOUN
  1. manual dexterity in the execution of tricks

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  • Learn how to do a one-handed cut to reveal cards with sleight of hand techniques from a real magician in this free card tricks video.
  • Understanding how your audience thinks is the key to a great response to a trick, not the sleight of hand, he says.
  • They were often magicians and practiced sleight of hand, and their use of trickery smacked of deceit. A Short Guide to Writing About History
  • The optical sleight of hand used by the astronomers combined the telescope's "adaptive optics" with a technique called aperture mask interferometry: using a a deformable mirror to rapidly correct for atmospheric distortions to starlight. New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography
  • Sleight of hand,’ he explained between chews.
  • The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
  • But there was a sleight of hand here. Times, Sunday Times
  • Last year's profits were more the result of financial sleight of hand than genuine growth.
  • Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact.
  • He accused Mr MacGregor of "sleight of hand".
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