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Significados de hocus-pocus en inglés

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Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

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Uso de hocus-pocus en inglés
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There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.
The Lost Sisterhood
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Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.
The Goose Man
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So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.
Speaking in Bones
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There's none of the Corsican Brothers sort of hocus-pocus about us in any way.
What's Bred in the Bone
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Some sort of Freaky Friday, role-reversal hocus-pocus was going on.
News.com.au
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A little hypnotic ability, a little hocus-pocus, and they can make people believe anything.
American Gods
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He was expecting her to perform some sort of hocus-pocus.
When darkness comes
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Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play.
The Moonstone
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The card is some hocus-pocus,- ablind ,aslike as not.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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Oh, I used a little justifiable hocus-pocus about the medicine.
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
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A sort of hocus-pocus... now you are my wife, now you aren't my wife.
Erik Dorn
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A little hocus-pocus to bring in the crowds is one thing, but killing people?
Tell me, pretty maiden
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There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes.
Caves of Terror
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In three minutes the hocus-pocus was timed to begin.
Eyeless in Gaza
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Hocus-pocus a través del tiempo
Hocus-pocus por variante geográfica
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