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Discover LudwigThe phrase "using the same gimmick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a method or technique that is repeated or reused in different contexts, often implying a lack of originality. Example: "The director faced criticism for using the same gimmick in his latest film that he had used in his previous one."
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Bollor built his wealth, interestingly enough, using the same gimmick he attacks at Lazard: a cascade of holding companies.
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The hit soundtrack album interspersed golden oldies with Mr Williams's DJ chatter five years before "Reservoir Dogs" used the same gimmick.
He notes three other attempts to use the same gimmick—Franz Niklaus König's Atlas céleste (1826), Friedrich Braun's Himmels-Atlas in transparenten Karten (1850), and Otto Möllinger's Himmelsatlas (1851), but states that they lack Urania's Mirror's artistry.
Something that I don't think people recognize is that had we used the same gimmicks that had been used previously, we could have driven down our budget projections over the next 10 years, down to point where debt was only 1.3 or 1.5percentt of G.D.P.
"We would have said, 'Well, they've done some good things here, we don't like it that much, but all in all it's a good bill.' But if it's got gimmicks that we've been blasting the left and center on for years, and Republicans are using the same kind of gimmicks, we've got to say something, and we've got to say it hard".
"Enchanted," the new Disney confection that is the No. 1 movie in America right now and deserves to remain so until further notice, uses the same basic gimmick and displays a comparably potent satiric sensibility, except that the darkness and chill are replaced by sweetness and light — and I mean that in a good way, I really do.
"Americans trusted that George Bush would be straight with us about the state of the federal budget, but he used the same accounting gimmicks that destroyed Enron to hide his descent into deficit spending," Mr. McAuliffe said to whistles and boos from a partisan crowd gathered in a ballroom just a hallway away from the slot machines and rows of gambling tables at the Las Vegas Hilton.
And the flash-forward opening — the same gimmick used in Season 1 — was tasty.
Promoters of these new asset-protection trusts also claim that the same gimmick protects the assets from federal estate tax.
Texas Rep. Ted Poe called it a "sneaky snake oil gimmick," despite the fact that Republicans themselves have used the same tactics in the past.
"I use the same chemicals".
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