| 单词 | parlour trick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparlour trick parlour trick n. (a) (in plural) society arts or accomplishments; (b) an amusing trick or pastime to entertain house guests. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other performances > [noun] jest1592 entremet1766 parlour trick1866 quête1903 Gesamtkunstwerk1939 mixed media1945 1866 in T. C. Haliburton Sayings & Doings Samuel Slick 269 (advt.) Parlor tricks with cards. Containing Explanations of all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever invented. 1887 Littell's Living Age 7 May 359/2 This looks much like the housemaid practice exalted to parlor tricks. 1918 D. Parker in Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 49/1 An ‘intimate revue’, a form of entertainment in which each member of the cast gets up and does his little parlor tricks and calls it an evening. 1964 M. Clive Day of Reckoning viii. 73 Parlour tricks, such as making cocked hats out of newspaper or paper boats from half-sheets of writing paper. 1996 M. Kingwell Dreams Millennium viii. 342 The proofs succeed, but only at the cost of an intellectual parlour trick that offends a sense of logical integrity. < as lemmas |
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