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One's stock of resources and stratagems, as in Mom can fix anything? you never know what she will pull out of her bag of tricks. Alluding to the magician's bag of equipment for performing magic tricks, this term was first recorded in 1694, when Jean de La Fontaine, in one of his fables, has a fox carry a sac des ruses ("bag of tricks").
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): bag of tricks
Fig. a collection of special techniques or methods. • What have you got in your bag of tricks that could help me with this problem? • Here comes Mother with her bag of tricks. I’m sure she can help us.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs