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词组 oldest trick in the book
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Idiom
oldest trick in the book
a way of deceiving someone that is not new.
It was the oldest trick in the book — one man distracted me while another stole my wallet.
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the oldest trick in the book

A method of deception, or of addressing some issue, that is well-known or has been used for a long time. Selling tourists fake artifacts is the oldest trick in the book—please don't fall for that one. Look, you can fix it by threading a paper clip through the hole. Oldest trick in the book!

the oldest trick in the book

If you call a dishonest or unfair action the oldest trick in the book, you mean that people should have expected it because it is a very common thing that people do. Well, that's the oldest trick in the book — to blame someone else for your problems. He's using the children to persuade people to part with their money. Oldest trick in the book.

the oldest trick in the book

a ruse so hackneyed that it should no longer deceive anyone.
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