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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a trick on" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where someone deceives or plays a practical joke on another person.
Example: "He played a trick on his friend by hiding his car keys."
Alternatives: "a prank on" or "a deception against".
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Between friends, it's usually the dominant members of the group who play a trick on the weaker ones.
Not everyone's totally buying it, though: Others have suggested that someone is playing a trick on Krachbichler personally, perhaps one of his friends.
Love can play a trick on you.
Fluency is playing a trick on judgment".
His mind had played a trick on him, he said.
"They are playing a trick on me," Rodríguez says.
He and the shopkeeper played a trick on me.
Was I playing a trick on Holy Mother Church?
"I thought my co-workers were playing a trick on me," he said.
("Jesus is a trick on niggers," the protagonist of Flannery O'Connor's 1949 novel "Wise Blood" says).
Nura's impish eldest son, Nikolai, played a trick on the bosses with some spoiled eggs.
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