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parlor trick AmE

It's a great parlor trick, but you're probably going to be wrong.

"I have a feeling we're about to see a parlor trick."

And a bit early in the day for parlor tricks."

Well, it is a joke, a sort of parlor trick.

I've seen a parlor trick performed with a couple of coins.

You wanted him to teach me parlor tricks of self-defense.

Stan used to do it as a parlor trick at parties sometimes, I heard him say.

"A parlour trick of mine to get you to speak.

It was as if they were delighting in a parlor trick.

A parlor trick in the age of common near-lightspeed travel.

I mean, turning yourself into a wolf is no cheap parlor trick.

But still, it seemed an awful lot of effort to go to for what amounted to a parlor trick.

And I would have been treated to a clever parlor trick."

Somehow that felt like more than a parlor trick.

It's a bit of a parlor trick, and the crowd reacts to that.

Normally, that would have been little more than an interesting parlor trick, but Valentine had taken the entire idea one stage further.

That makes it seem like a cheap parlour trick.

But was the instant Fallingwater design some kind of parlor trick?

And it has to do, in part, with Bora's psychological parlor tricks.

It was a stupid parlor trick, but it worked every time.

"Whoever's responsible for this little parlor trick, they don't know everything.

"Jason was great at parlor tricks, he could count to 10 in 12 languages," she said.

He wished that people would understand it was nothing but a 'parlor trick.'

Clearly, this is just the sort of parlor trick they have hired Waterhouse to perform.