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The phrase "doing the trick" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to refer to something that is effective or successful in solving a problem or accomplishing a task. Example: "I wasn't sure if this new cleaner would work, but it ended up doing the trick and removing the stain from my carpet."
Idiom
Do the trick.
If something does the trick, it is was is needed or has the necessary effect.
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(No matter — the cocktails appear to be doing the trick).
For now, that seems to be doing the trick.
The two-spinner tactic isn't doing the trick.
He has a plastic bag over his head, and this seems to be doing the trick.
So far Mr Cameron's carefully crafted language appears to be doing the trick.
Throughout Conway's qualifying rounds on Wednesday the ink seemed to be doing the trick.
The fear of God doesn't seem to be doing the trick.
Percodan was no longer doing the trick, so Kaspar Hauser had been put on Dilaudid.
If repeating your name frequently isn't doing the trick, just correct them.
Maybe the economic measures already taken will end up doing the trick, jump-starting a self-sustaining recovery.
She started doing the trick, "and it all got a bit, you know, kind of drunk and naked".
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