| 词汇 | oldest-trick-in-the-book |
| 释义 | the oldest trick in the bookidiom a way of tricking someone that is still effective although it has been used a lot before: 一种老套但仍然有效的骗人把戏 It was the oldest trick in the book - one man distracted me while another stole my wallet.又是这套老把戏：一人分散我的注意力，一人趁机把我的钱包偷走。 Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel funny business game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp prankster pretext pretextual pull pull a fast oneidiom Examples of the oldest trick in the bookthe oldest trick in the book Their means of diverting attention is theoldesttrickinthebook—create a diversion, search out a scapegoat and put the blame on someone else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He tried theoldesttrickinthebook: pretending that there is such a thing as a free lunch. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is theoldesttrickinthebook. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is this divide-and-rule, theoldesttrickinthebook, which you and your fellow colleagues have fallen for. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English She succeeded, mainly by employing theoldesttrickinthebook. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is theoldesttrickinthebook for keeping out the people whose knowledge should be available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Theoldesttrickinthebook when you have problems at home is to divert people's attention by looking for an enemy abroad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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