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Значения термина sleight of hand на английском

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Fine motor skills used to entertain or manipulate.

престидиджитация
Синонимы
Examples for "legerdemain"
Examples for "legerdemain"
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Who pays, is a fact buried in the arcana of aldermanic legerdemain.
Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale
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The question is thus narrowed to one of pure legerdemain, and the
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University...
3
She gazed at them with wide-open eyes, half convinced of some legerdemain.
Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune
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You know I do legerdemain, Frank explained, in his low, sweet voice.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
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Did you call that little exhibition of yours legerdemain, Tim, you sweep?
The Shape of Fear
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We begin with a performance of prestidigitation that will take your breath away.
The last illusion
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It is very simple, like all that is done in the matter of prestidigitation.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
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And like a feat of prestidigitation Daniel disappeared into the blackness of the van.
The Old Wives' Tale
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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)
Использование термина sleight of hand на английском
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Instead, he typically solved his problems with sleight of hand or mechanics.
Hiding the Elephant
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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
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He didn't tell them about the sleight of hand with the sources.
The bricklayer
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This is no simple school of sleight of hand and card tricks.
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
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Nature was a grand one for sleight of hand and magic tricks.
The Fireman
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They told Eisenhower that they could overthrow Castro by sleight of hand.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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Through sleight of hand, Sedaris artfully reveals as much as he conceals.
Wired
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This, in a clever sleight of hand, is Potter as field vole.
The Guardian
10
What a sleight of hand marriage was, how fraudulent the social world!
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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Conjuration, sleight of hand, magic, witchcraft, were the subjects of the evening.
Cranford
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The approach drew isolated claims of budgetary sleight of hand during floor debate.
Reuters
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He had a diversity of talents; he was clever at sleight of hand.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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All of this Sheridan managed with a seeming ease and sleight of hand.
The Irish Times
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This village was named for the once famous sleight of hand performer Patler.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5
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It is nothing but a ghetto, dealt with sleight of hand.
Perdido Street Station