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parlour trick en · NOUN
Meanings
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(figuratively) A piece of trickery or falsehood, especially a trivial one.
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Synonym of party trick (“a trick performed for entertainment”).
You may be nearly omnipotent—and I don't deny that your parlor tricks are very impressive—but morality? I don't see it.
1992, René Echevarria, “True Q”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Steward):
Forms
Coordinates
dirty trick
Relateds
parlour game
Synonyms
party trick