The phrase "about a trick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific trick, whether it's a magic trick, a clever maneuver, or a technique in a particular context.
Example: "He told me a fascinating story about a trick he learned during his travels."
Alternatives: "regarding a trick" or "concerning a trick".
Tells about a trick used to get them to land promptly because every second counts.
And it is a story about a trick that is itself a deep literary trick, because, in fiction, another name for Chance is authorial control.
At Sydney festival, British performer Rob Drummond's Bullet Catch – a participatory magic show about a trick with a notorious fatality rate – was quiet, disquieting and profoundly moving.
Alex Montgomery, one of the great Fleet Street veterans, told a lovely story during the Football Writers Associationn dinner about a trick Dave Mackay used to play on nights out when he would ask for someone to toss a coin in his direction.
Yet that's not the conclusion you might draw from the many media reports that have focused on matters like hacked e-mail and climate scientists' talking about a "trick" to "hide" an anomalous decline in one data series or expressing their wish to see papers by climate skeptics kept out of research reviews.
Seriously, this is about as dirty a trick as we've seen in quite some time, and deserves some media attention.
Nothing must be divulged in public about how a trick worked.
Talk about missing a trick: that's why cars advertise mpg (even though those figures are from perfect driving conditions).
In fact, it's surprising how few such lines the critics managed to find in the "Climategate" trove: much of the smear has focused on just one e-mail, in which a researcher talks about using a "trick" to "hide the decline" in a particular series.
He's using Nick as his assistant - allowing for an easy "I know a thing or two about apprentices" laugh - in a trick about an invisible pack of cards.
"They were watching me as they would watch a conjurer about to perform a trick".
