| 释义 |
sleight of handsleight of hand /ˌslaɪt əv ˈhænd/ noun [uncountable]   sleight of handOrigin: 1400-1500 sleight ‘skill, trick’ (13-20 centuries) from Old Norse slgth, from slgr; ➔ SLY - Miller's financial sleight of hand resulted in the loss of $2 million in tax revenue.
- All the empirical evidence in favour of accuracy order can now be shifted by sleight of hand in support of the notion of natural acquisition.
- Create impressive graphic designs on your walls; all it takes is courage and a little sleight of hand.
- For us this ad is emotional sleight of hand, not proof of progress.
- I planned to switch them when we got here - just sleight of hand, you know.
- It would not be easy to effect the transition that Labour suggests by Government sleight of hand.
- The nagging suspicion of sleight of hand merely adds to her mystique.
- The word sleight for most of us probably never occurs outside sleight of hand.
- They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another.
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