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50 Words for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
A box of
tricks
A
fool
and his money are soon parted
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A man who is his own lawyer has a
fool
for a client
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Accept a wooden nickel
Act the
fool
Apple pie bed
April
fool
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Back the
wrong
horse
Bag of
tricks
Barking up the
wrong
tree
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Be under no
illusion
Better to remain silent and be thought a
fool
that to speak and remove all doubt
Bigger in Texas, Better in a
Dodge
(
Dodge
Motors advertising slogan )
Booby
trap
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Born on the
wrong
side of the blanket
Born on the
wrong
side of the tracks
Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a poem by John Donne )
By way of a joke
Card up his sleeve
Cheat
sheet
Cheaters never win, and winners never
cheat
( proverbial saying )
Con artist
Crazy
fool
( A catchphrase from The A-Team )
Curve ball ( a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology )
Death
trap
Dirty
tricks
Dirty work at the crossroads
Do my eyes
deceive
me?
Does the trick
Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining
Every trick in the book
Flatter to
deceive
Fool
around
Fool
me once, shame on you,
fool
me twice, shame on me
Fool's errand
Fool's gold ( a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold )
Fool's paradise
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Fox
trap
From the
wrong
side of the tracks
Get hold of the
wrong
end of the stick
Get off on the
wrong
foot
Get out of the
wrong
side of the bed
Get the hell out of
Dodge
Go down the
wrong
way
Go
wrong
Grab life by the horns (
Dodge
Motors advertising slogan )
Hocus pocus
Honey
trap
How
wrong
can you be?
How's tricks?
I pity the
fool
( A catchphrase from The A-Team )
I've been had
If anything can go wrong, it will
If this is
wrong
I don't want to be right
In the
wrong
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
It isn't nice to
fool
mother nature
It went down the
wrong
way
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for gone
wrong
)
Jiggery pokery
Jump to the
wrong
conclusion
Keep your
trap
shut
Laugh on the
wrong
side of your face
Lead on
Lead up the garden path
Let the cat out of the bag
Load the dice
Love
cheat
Make a complete
fool
of yourself
Make a
fool
of yourself
Mickey Finn
Monkey business
More
fool
you
My country right or
wrong
Never misses a trick
Nobody's
fool
Not that there's anything
wrong
with that ( A catchphrase from Seinfeld )
Now you see it, now you don't
On the
wrong
foot
On the
wrong
side of the tracks
One trick pony
Paper the house
Pick a card, any card
Pig in a poke
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Play possum
Play the
fool
Played for a
fool
Pony and
trap
( Cockney rhyming slang for crap )
Press into service
Pull a fast one
Pull a sickie
Pull the rabbit out of the hat
Put a foot
wrong
Rub up the
wrong
way
Sell someone a dummy
Shake down
Show pony
Shut up, fool. ( A catchphrase from The A-Team )
Shut your
trap
Sleight
of hand
Smell the Glove ( fictional album by the
spoof
heavy-metal band Spinal Tap )
Smoke and mirrors
Snow job
Stacked deck
Stunt
double
Sucker punch
Swing the lead
Tears Of A
Clown
( Smokey Robinson song )
The
Clown
Killer ( Nickname of John Gacy )
The
Clown
Prince ( Nickname of Paul Gascoigne )
The
Cobra
( Nickname of Kobe Bryant )
The
Fool
On The Hill ( The Beatles song )
The Indian rope trick
The Lone Star
Cobra
( Nickname of Donald Curry )
The Parent
Trap
( Hayley Mills movie )
The Tears of a
Clown
The Tender
Trap
( Frank Sinatra movie )
The Wisest
Fool
In Christendom ( Nickname of King James I )
The hand is quicker than the eye
The right place at the
wrong
time
There's no
fool
like an old
fool
There's one born every minute
Tourist
trap
Trap
and ball ( children's ball game )
Trick of the light
Trick or treat
Tricks
of the trade
Turn a trick
Up to your old
tricks
Up your sleeve
Voter
fraud
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to
deceive
What's the catch?
What's
wrong
with this picture?
Where's the catch?
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him
Wrong
)
Wrong
Way Corrigan ( Nickname of Douglas Corrigan )
Wrong
side of the blanket
Wrong
side of the tracks
Wrong, with a capital R
You can't
cheat
an honest man
You can't kid a kidder
You can't teach an old dog new
tricks
You're having me on