the old switcheroo

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.
See also:
  • switcheroo
  • twenty-twenty hindsight, with
  • hold you hard
  • pitch a curve
  • love you
  • Love you!
  • it was ever so
  • twa
  • thus
  • it was ever thus
References in periodicals archive
If you enjoyed Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis swapping lives in 'Freaky Friday' (2003) or Zac Efron and Matthew Perry doing the old switcheroo in '17 Again' (2009), then 'Rashid & Rajab' is right up your alley.
Of course she doesn't want to answer questions about toyboys, so she performs the old switcheroo. Look over here, she says - because guess what?
And, to add insult to Dems' injury, MM made the old switcheroo the day after voting for officers of the Nashua Dem City Committee--officers of a party she was going to turn her back on in about 24 hours.
That, I suppose, is the intention behind the old switcheroo dropped in our laps last week.
Also playing will be London-based The Old Switcheroo and you can get a free copy of the new single on the night.
Call it the old switcheroo, though technically it was a process of changing her jump leg off the board from the right to the left.
The old switcheroo: At the Minnesota's Duluth New Tribune, Todd Keute has been named vice president of administration; previously he was publisher of the Daily Telegram in Superior, Wis.
Modern science has made it frighteningly easy to pull off the old switcheroo.
There is no question many Germans behaved as louts, looting cellars (often getting the old switcheroo, crappy wine in lieu of good wine) and even shooting up some chateaux.
As the food supply has grown increasingly complex, manufacturers have taken the old switcheroo to new heights.
The old switcheroo a common theme in early newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates
I waited for the old switcheroo but I got the same ticket back.
But Fate, again acting through the person of Ogletree, pulls the old switcheroo. For a variety of reasons, the North Kosanese are not able to show Jennings evidence of South Kosanese atrocities.
It's also a dramatic week for the Scavo twins, who have pulled the old switcheroo as Porter faces charges of arson - and death threats.