parlour trick
(US parlor trick)
noun
1(In plural) society arts or accomplishments.
2An amusing trick or pastime to entertain house guests.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Haliburton (1796–1865), politician and writer.
- hopeless
- hopelessly
- hopelessness
- hoper
- hope springs eternal (in the human breast)
- hop field
- hop-harlot
- hophead
- Hopi
- hop in (or out)
- hop into
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Hopkins, Mark
- Hopkinson, Francis
- Hopkins, Sir Anthony
- Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland
- Hopkinsville
- hoplite
- hopper
- Hopper, Edward
- Hopper, Grace Murray
- hopper head
- hop picker
- hop picking
- hopping