Sentence examples for rotten trick from inspiring English sources
But usually it's a rotten trick on the one desiring to live forever, along the lines of those mishaps that occur with the Genie's three wishes, or the unintended consequences of the Butterfly Effect or King Midas's curse.
It has worked for thousands before -- why not you? 1) Citing evidence selectively is an easy, old, and rotten trick.
He is a man of great talent but he is throwing it away on drink and worry over his misfortunes … His name, I forgot to say, is Scott Fitzgerald, and a New York paper has just published a miserable interview with him – it was a lousy trick, a rotten … piece of journalism, going to see a man in that condition, gaining his confidence, and then betraying him.
These include: the use and abuse of lunatics from an asylum; an amorous villain with a repellent skin disease; a violent deflowering of a bride by someone other than the groom; convulsion-inducing potions administered to detect if a woman is a virgin; and a particularly cold-blooded variation on that rotten old chestnut, the bed trick, in which one woman is substituted for another in the dark.
Britain insisted that such an amendment would still require at least parliamentary ratification, and a senior German official, briefing reporters, decried the quick fix as "a typical Brussels bag of tricks" and a "rotten compromise".
Don't be shy in scaring kids with slaughterhouse images or rotten teeth, making them feel tricked by advertising or disgusting them with burp sounds.
"He had a rotten night, and the memory of his last game here [a hat-trick in a 3-2 win over Rennes] seemed a long way away," said Nord Éclair.
Whenever I crave tobacco, I think of a trick our guide proudly showed us amid the swirling sulphrous mists and their faint stink of rotten eggs.
