how's tricks en · X
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(colloquial, idiomatic) Informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
‘G’day there, Jessie. How’s tricks? You know me cobber?’ ‘Know him? Course I know him!’
1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 28:He was smoking a cigar (a most unusual occurrence), and a smile of satisfaction lit up his serene countenance. "How's tricks, Harry my boy?" I asked of that gentleman.
12 April 1884, The Grip (Toronto)
Translations (7)
nb står til (informal greeting) · fi kuinka hurisee (informal greeting) · fi miten menee (informal greeting) · de Wie steht's (informal greeting) · fr ça gaze? (informal greeting) · pl jak leci? (informal greeting) · nb hva skjer (informal greeting)