switcheroo

switcheroo

slang A surprising, unexpected, or deceptive swap, change, variation, or reversal. I'll distract the guards while you make a switcheroo with the fake diamond. The politician had been campaigning for months against the legislation, only to pull the old switcheroo and start putting her support behind it at the last minute.

the old switcheroo

slang A surprising, unexpected, or deceptive swap, change, variation, or reversal. "Old" is sometimes stylized as "ol'." The politician had been campaigning for months against the legislation, only to pull the old switcheroo and start putting her support behind it at the last minute. Wait a minute, you're Lisa, not Linda! Ah, you've pulled the ol' switcheroo on Grandpa.
See also: old, switcheroo
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

switcheroo

(ˈswɪtʃɚˈru)
n. a reversal; a switching around. He pulled a switcheroo on us and showed up at the other door, so we missed getting his autograph.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • call someone's bluff, to
  • pitch a curve
  • put someone off their stroke
  • put (one) off (one's) stroke
  • put one off one's stride
  • put one off stride
  • put somebody off their stride/stroke
  • put someone off their stride
  • put (one) off (one's) stride
  • bad faith
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The Brief: Dec. 11, 2013
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Thanks to Dave Mehringer for pointing out the switcheroo.
Interstellar communication
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The Drop
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The contest is on! One of the highlights of many gatherings, and certainly a crowd-pleasing favorite, is the contest. Which one you ask? Oh, just about any of them, really. They are all exciting!
The old body switcheroo gets dusted off again, and while Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds are great, it all feels so, so familiar.
Body swap falls on face; Your movies
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Fortunate reversals
Things appear to be going well for a while in the 'switcheroo', with Chris working at the brewery and Meg taking her mother's place as homemaker.
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