up to one's old tricks

up to (one's) (old) tricks

Doing things that one was known for doing in the past, especially deceitful or mischievous behavior. Food went missing from the school cafeteria? It sounds like Billy is up to his tricks again. I reunited with my two best friends after nearly five years apart, and we were up to our old tricks again in no time.

up to one's old tricks

Behaving in one's usual deceitful or mischievous fashion, as in She's up to her old tricks, telling her parents one thing and her teachers another, or He's up to his old tricks, teasing his sisters until they're in tears. Put as at his old tricks, this idiom was first recorded in 1823.

词组	up to one's old tricks
释义	up to one's old tricks up to (one's) (old) tricks Doing things that one was known for doing in the past, especially deceitful or mischievous behavior. Food went missing from the school cafeteria? It sounds like Billy is up to his tricks again. I reunited with my two best friends after nearly five years apart, and we were up to our old tricks again in no time. See also: trick, up Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. up to one's old tricks Behaving in one's usual deceitful or mischievous fashion, as in She's up to her old tricks, telling her parents one thing and her teachers another, or He's up to his old tricks, teasing his sisters until they're in tears. Put as at his old tricks, this idiom was first recorded in 1823. See also: old, trick, up The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. See also: up to (one's) (old) tricks up to your tricks be up to (one's) (old) tricks be up to (one's) old tricks be up to your tricks teeter teeter on the brink teeter on the brink of (something) teeter on the brink/edge of something teeter on the edge of (something)
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