not miss a trick

Idioms  

1. Also, never miss a trick; not miss much. Not fail to be aware of what is going on. For example, When it comes to the commodities market, Mark never misses a trick, or Dad may seem absentminded, but he doesn't miss much. The first phrase dates from the early 1900s; the variant employs miss in the sense of “fail to perceive,” a usage dating from the late 1600s.

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Example Sentences

Garry Monk is stood in the centre of the training pitch, far enough away from the players running around the perimeter so as not to be breathing down their neck but close enough to see everything and not miss a trick.

From The Guardian

"We wanted to be able to say after the report that we did not miss a trick."

From Time Magazine Archive

As a double exposure of the young Irish hero, Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford do not miss a trick or a tear in the whole course of the show.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a double exposure of the young Irish hero, Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford do not miss a trick or a tear.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the time the curtain goes up on a cockeyed newsreel in which Hitler talks with a Yiddish accent and Mussolini with a Negro one, Helha-poppin�gagging, hamming, roughhousing all the way�does not miss a trick.

From Time Magazine Archive