Trick Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A box of tricks
• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Accept a wooden nickel
• Act the fool
• Apple pie bed
• April fool
• Back the wrong horse
• Bag of tricks
• Barking up the wrong tree
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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