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Definition of “three-card trick”

three-card trick

Definitions

noun

  1. a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen

Example Sentences Including 'three-card trick'

For goalkeepers, penalties are a sort of three-card trick ; you dive left or right or stay where you are.
Times, Sunday Times (2001)
Is it now a case of the three-card trick Find the Lady to see which stealth tax he brings in?
Sun, News of the World (2001)

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