Meaning of bag of tricks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.
   idiomatic
2. A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items.
   dated, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“"When the time comes I'll go down in the little bag of tricks and dig⟳ up anything you need⟳, from a jig dance⟳ to a jimmy and a bottle of soup."”

“I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest⟳ of the bag of tricks along those lines.”

“Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win⟳.”

“But investigators have⟳ a hefty bag of tricks to expose them—powder, chemicals, lasers and lights.”

“Instead of to the credit side of my account he had put⟳ the whole bag of tricks to my debit.”

“When it was built fifteen years ago it was considered a model⟳—six bathrooms, its own⟳ electric light⟳ plant⟳, steam heating, and independent boiler for hot water, the whole bag of tricks.”

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