SLEIGHT OF HAND


Meaning of SLEIGHT OF HAND in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Miller's financial sleight of hand resulted in the loss of $2 million in tax revenue.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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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