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Sleight of hand

noun

Manual dexterity in the execution of tricks. Synonym: prestidigitation.

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"Sleight of hand" Quotes from Famous Books

... to flight, and then, by a nimble trick, contrived to enter the castle itself, to seize Lord and Lady Roche at their breakfast-table, to slip out with them and through the town unmolested, and to regain Cork next day with the loss of only a single man. The whole affair was a piece of military sleight of hand, brilliantly designed, incomparably well carried out. The summer and autumn were passed in scouring the woods and ravines of Munster from Tipperary to Kilkenny. Miserable work he found it, and glad he must have been when a summons from London put an end to ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

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... when I tried to catch him, he confounded me by quoting the identical words of a passage in some work which I could have sworn he had never set eyes on. I daresay it was due only to some juggling, like the conjuror's sleight of hand that apparently lets you choose a card, but in fact forces one on you; and he brought the conversation round cleverly to a point when it was obvious I should mention a definite book. He talked very well, with an ...

— The Magician • Somerset Maugham

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Words linked to "Sleight of hand" : conjuring trick, thaumaturgy, legerdemain, trick, magic, deception, conjuration, magic trick, illusion