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trick / broma
trick
A. -noun
1. (=joke, hoax) broma (f)
(=mischief) travesura (f)
(=ruse) truco (m), ardid (m)
·dirty or mean trick mala pasada (f), jugada (f) sucia
·the tricks of the trade
·los trucos del oficio
·to play a trick on somebody
·gastar una broma a somebody, someone
·unless my eyes are playing tricks on me
·si los ojos no me engañan
·his memory played a trick on him
·le falló la memoria
·trick or treat!
frase amenazante que pronuncian en tono jocoso los niños que rondan las casas en la noche de Halloween; quiere decir: --¡danos algo o te hacemos una trastada!
a. he'noun up to his old tricks again ha vuelto a hacer de las suyas
b. how'noun tricks? * ¿cómo te va?
2. (=card trick) baza (f)
(=conjuring trick) truco (m) (in circus) nounúmero (m)
·to take all the tricks
·ganar or hacer todas las bazas
a. he/she knows a trick or two se lo sabe todo
b. I know a trick worth two of that yo me nouné algo mucho mejor
c. that should do the trick esto servirá
d. he/she doesn't miss a trick no se pierde nada
e. to try every trick in the book emplear todos los trucos
f. that'noun the oldest trick in the book eso es un viejo truco
g. the whole bag of tricks * todo el rollo *
3. (=special knack) truco (m)
·there'noun a trick to opening this door
·esta puerta tiene truco para abrirla
·to get the trick of it
·coger el truco, aprender el modo de hacerlo
4. (=peculiarity, strange habit) manía (f), peculiaridad (f)
·certain tricks of style
·ciertas peculiaridades estilísticas, ciertos rasgos del estilo
·it'noun just a trick he has
·es una manía suya
·to have a trick of doing something
·tener la manía de hacer algo
·history has a trick of repeating itself
·la historia tiene tendencia a repetirse
·it'noun a trick of the light
·es una ilusiónoun óptica
5. (=catch) trampa (f)
·there must be a trick in it
·aquí seguro que hay trampa
6. **
a. [of prostitute] cliente (m)
·to turn tricks
ligarse clientes *
B. -transitive verb
(=deceive) engañar
(=swindle) estafar, timar
·I've been tricked!
·¡me han engañado!
·to trick somebody into doing something
·engañar a somebody, someone para que haga algo, conseguir con engaños que somebody, someone haga algo
·to trick somebody out of something
·quitar algo a somebody, someone con engaños
C. -compound
·trick cyclist -noun ciclista masculine and feminine acróbata
·trick photography -noun trucaje (m)
·trick question -noun pregunta (f) de pega
·trick riding -noun acrobacia (f) ecuestre
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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