"pulled off a trick" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to successfully execute a clever or deceptive action. Example: The magician pulled off a trick that left the audience in awe.
Morgan had pulled off a trick within a trick.
Driscoll Middle School in Corpus Christi, Tex., pulled off a trick play over the weekend that has become an Internet sensation.
Their good stuff is durable and gorgeous, and they pulled off a trick that indie rock has struggled with ever since: How do you stay weird if you also like singable songs?
If he seems to possess a vivid reality if he seems, to use a phrase Gass would have abhorred, to leap from the page that is because James pulled off a trick.
The Rams are 10-2 because they prepare well and bring imaginative game plans: quarterback Kurt Warner pulled off a trick play on which he acted as if he were walking to the sideline and the ball was snapped to Marshall Faulk for a 4-yard run that helped set up the Rams' first score -- a play daringly called on fourth-and-1 at the San Francisco 10.
He just released a book, Black Klansman, about his experience, so I figured now was as good a time as any to talk about how he pulled off a trick straight out of Blazing Saddles (and one that made for the first great skit on Dave Chappelle's short-lived TV show).
Simply put, the Fed pulled off a magic trick that would leave Houdini gasping.
Even his mastery of illusion has never been able to pull off a trick like this.
Barely a match goes by in which they fail to pull off a trick that makes watching them a joy.
Since then, the bank's Spanish unit has grown beyond the expectations of its own management by pulling off a trick that companies the world over seek to perform: selling familiarity to a loyal, nearly captive clientele far from home.
It pulls off a trick that Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting did; to take a subject that most of us would view with horror and create a world that we could imagine inhabiting.
