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tricks of the trade
Clever ways of operating a business or performing a task or activity, especially slightly dishonest or unfair ones. For example, Alma knows all the tricks of the trade, cutting the fabric as close as possible, or The butcher weighs meat after it's wrapped; charging for the packaging is one of the tricks of the trade.
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All these tricks of the trade would be incorporated in a tale of an attempted assassination of President de Gaulle, The Day of the Jackal, which he pounded out in his bedsit on an old typewriter in just 35 days.
He will perform at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival in May, and said there are "tricks of the trade" including certian "jokes and comebacks" that experienced comedians can lean on to deal with such situations.
Despite Quentin’s request for his father to coach him in youth sports — “I wanted to learn all the tricks of the trade,” he said — Carnell declined.
Growing up in Laos, she learned tricks of the trade from her Hmong community, for whom gardening was an important part of everyday life.
"I succeeded because I grasped the psychology of the buyer and the tricks of the trade," he said in the same interview.
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