Definition of Bag of tricks

1. Noun. A supply of ways of accomplishing something. "Every good mechanic has a large bag of tricks"

Generic synonyms: Know-how

Definition of Bag of tricks

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic dated often preceded by (term whole)) A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bag Of Tricks

bag
bag-carrier
bag-gel implant
bag and baggage
bag cell neurons
bag for life
bag ladies
bag lady
bag man
bag men
bag net
bag of antlers
bag of bones
bag of fruit
bag of rations
bag of tricks (current term)
bag of waters
bag of wind
bag of words
bag out
bag valve mask
bag valve masks
bagaceratopsid
bagaceratopsids
bagarre
bagarres
bagascosis

Literary usage of Bag of tricks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Were You Ever a Child by Floyd Dell (1921)
"Of course, there is no specific bag of tricks which suffices Man to live by; he is what he is precisely by virtue of a capacity for unlimited adaptation to ..."

2. You Can Choose to Be Happy: "Rise Above" Anxiety, Anger, and Depression by Tom G. Stevens (1998)
"It has one bag of tricks to cope with temperatures that are too high and another bag of tricks to cope with temperatures that are too low. ..."

3. From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition by Robert Siegfried (2002)
"Just as history is a bag of tricks we play on the dead, scientific theory is a bag of tricks we play on ourselves if we believe it represents nature as it ..."

4. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"That's the whole bag of tricks." Baked, seasoned, "he's only HALF-BAKED," ie, soft, inexperienced. Baker's Dozen, thirteen. Originally the London bakers ..."

5. Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine: A Monthly Journal Devoted to All (1887)
"As the Boyal Artillery and Boyal Engineers never were purchase corps, the abolition of purchase left them where they were. The "Bag of Tricks," which the ..."

6. The Digressions of V.: Written for His Own Fun and that of His Friends by Elihu Vedder (1910)
"In fact, the whole bag of tricks is alive and the tricks are in a fine tangle. The Mist of Time is gone; it is Now again. There is no perspective, ..."

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