单词 | old trick |
释义 | > as lemmasold trick old trick n. a frequently used stratagem; (more generally) a habit or idiosyncrasy, frequently in up to one's old tricks. ΚΠ a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxxxvii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 324 While he conceived another piece of fun, One of his old tricks. 1990 N. Payne Grenadian Childhood 98 We kept her and in a few weeks she was up to her old tricks again, producing babies. 1998 R. Carr Brixton Bwoy v. 102 Soon Tee was back to his old tricks, pickpocketing down..the underground, or thieving from clothes shops. < as lemmas |
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