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

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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