three-card trick
Britishnoun
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No amount of fast-talking can disguise that, no attempt at a three-card trick is going to fool a single fan at this point.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
What's objectionable about this film is the feeling that you've been made the target of some misdirection scam: a cinematic three-card trick.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2010
She was a mystery, just as a juggler or the three-card trick were mysteries, and as such she commanded respect.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
Or rather does it not suggest the three-card trick?
From Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote
I trickled up to Corpse and eventually discovered Albert Edward alone, practising the three-card trick with a view to a career after the War.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919 by Various
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