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Significados de prestidigitation em inglês

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Manual dexterity in the execution of tricks.

        passapassa
        Sinônimos
        Examples for "sleight of hand"
        Examples for "sleight of hand"
        1
        Instead, he typically solved his problems with sleight of hand or mechanics.
        Hiding the Elephant
        2
        I've used pretty women to distract attention from my sleight of hand.
        Shadow zone
        3
        The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand.
        The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
        4
        He didn't tell them about the sleight of hand with the sources.
        The bricklayer
        5
        This is no simple school of sleight of hand and card tricks.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        Uso de prestidigitation em inglês
        1
        We begin with a performance of prestidigitation that will take your breath away.
        The last illusion
        2
        It is very simple, like all that is done in the matter of prestidigitation.
        Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
        3
        And like a feat of prestidigitation Daniel disappeared into the blackness of the van.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        4
        Her father was whispering to her, entertaining her with prestidigitation.
        Perdido Street Station
        5
        When would he reach the easy prestidigitation of his master!
        Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
        6
        It's awesome. WIRED Cardistry is like card magic without the tricks, prestidigitation without the abracadabra.
        Wired
        7
        Little snips of magic, prestidigitation of light, chromathaumaturgy sending up pretences of birds made of radiance.
        Iron Council
        8
        It was an ostentatious piece of prestidigitation.
        The Scar
        9
        By no political prestidigitation can it be made better and wiser than the sum of their goodness and wisdom.
        The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays / 1909
        10
        In matters of prestidigitation, Champnell, we Westerns are among the rudiments,-we'veeverything to learn,-Orientalsleave us at the post.
        The Beetle: A Mystery
        11
        Just a little prestidigitation, ma'am.
        American Gods
        12
        As he realized, the existence or non-existence of God is too big a question to be decided by 'dialectical prestidigitation'.
        The god delusion
        13
        This prestidigitation is bound to lead to ever larger bills and to the attrition of good will of both donor and recipient.
        Financial Crime and Corruption
        14
        To acquire, to absorb, to, er, steep, as it were, in the secret arts of divination, illumination, prestidigitation, and, er, etcetera, etcetera.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        15
        The human voice is rarely heard within its walls save in connexion with corn, or the ambidextrous prestidigitation of the Wizard of the North.
        Speeches: Literary and Social
        16
        Once more, I say, these amusements have their place, as the circus has, and the burlesque and negro minstrelsy, and the ballet, and prestidigitation.
        Criticism and Fiction
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        Translations for prestidigitation
        Prestidigitation ao longo do tempo