Tricky Phrases

Phrases

• A box of tricks
• As cunning as a fox
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As sly as a fox
• Bag of tricks
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• I have a cunning plan (A catchphrase from Blackadder)
• Make life difficult
• On the sly
• Sly dog
• The Artful Dodger (Nickname of Jack Dawkins)
• The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
• Tricky Dicky (Nickname of Richard Nixon)