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—— a treatBritish informal 1Do something specified very well or satisfactorily: their tactics worked a treat...- If Queensland had deliberately targeted Johnson's suspect temperament ahead of the Test series, as some feared they might, then the tactic worked a treat initially.
- Monkhouse's new tactic worked a treat as she went on to take the set 5-3 to force a best-of-three-ends shoot-out.
- The tactics worked a treat, as his mount stormed away in the closing stages.
1.1 ( look a treat) Look attractive: I don’t know whether she can act, but she looks a treat...- But it is a vast improvement on the post-war British version of the tale, it looks a treat and boasts a fantastic cast of character actors sinking their teeth into Dickens' gallery of grotesques and unfortunates.
- However, the film looks a treat, Jack McElhone is an expressive, unaffected child actor and Gibb makes sure that the film still takes a persuasive hold on the heartstrings.
- The first has all 15 episodes of the original 1949 B & R theatrical serial over its two discs and looks a treat.
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