Sentence examples for three-card trick from inspiring English sources

So back came Shami for the old three-card trick.

Instead he has played a shabby three-card trick on Russia's voters.

The first departure was akin to the playing of the three-card trick and Shane Watson fell for it again.

Alastair Cook was the victim, edging behind after being drawn into an errant stroke through the bowler's classic three-card trick – in-ducker, in-ducker, away-slanter.

The Tories are offering a three-card trick on the economy, based on false arithmetic, and those who've fallen for it in business want to fall for it.

"Gut ache" is how the playwright Harold Pinter described Beckett's message: "A major irritation, a most stern and ruthless activity without question or answer, a three-card trick, a necessity.

THOSE who hoped that Romano Prodi's centre-left government would end the three-card-trick techniques of public accounting so dear to his centre-right predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi, must have been disappointed by its first budget.

If you have done the card trick correctly their card will be the 11th card in the pile of cards.

If you have done the card trick correctly their card with be the 11th card in the pile of cards.

It felt like watching a bloke on the pavement with an upturned milk crate doing the three card trick.

The fourth wicket pair had taken England's lead to 98 when Root fell daftly for a version of the three card trick.