"I told him it was a magic trick and talked to him about the trick step by step; how the butterfly would go into his arm, and blood, which I called juice, would go round and round in the tube.
Morgan Freeman, as a TV personality who makes a living by exposing the ways in which magicians dupe people, leads the cop investigating the robbery (Mark Ruffalo) through the trick, step by step.
Mr. Carell, Ms. Wilde and Mr. Carrey attended the screening, and while they were on the red carpet, a man was performing magic tricks steps away on the sidewalk.
Now take that trick a step further: Say the punctuation mark aloud.
Bennett also pulls off the trick of stepping back and commenting directly to the reader about a character.
When one earns one's living and professional acclaim by being an uncanny chameleon, it is a difficult trick to step unmasked into the bright light of fame.
But clever lockpickers like Jos Weyers and Christian Holler already are taking that DIY key-making trick a step further: They can 3-D print a slice of plastic or metal that opens even high-security locks in seconds, without even seeing the original key.
In sheer panic, I employed the old boxing trick of stepping on his foot as I threw a punch to keep him from moving.
(This would be called "stacking the deck", and it would be cheating, if you were actually playing cards off the deck as you fixed it up, without shuffling them, but this is a trick...) Step before your audience holding your seemingly ordinary pack of cards.
