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Sleight Of Hand
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What does Sleight Of Hand mean?
noun
- The required manual dexterity used to perform magic tricks and illusions.
- A performance of such a skill.
- (figuratively) Any form of clever or skillful trickery or deception.
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The insight of the born mechanic, the sleight of hand which marks the true experimenter, have in them something magical to the ignorant.
One of the chief fascinations of gardening is the endless field it affords for skilful sleight of hand, short-cuts, unconventional methods, and experiments.
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We may therefore say, as nit is a sleight of hand with ideas and conceptions, so stratagem is a sleight of hand with actions.
The throwing the hides upon the pole was the most difficult work, and required a sleight of hand which was only to be got by long practice.
Hence, presently, a knowledge of certain natural processes which could be turned to account for spectacular effect, together with some sleight of hand, came to be an integral part of priestly lore.