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trick of the trade en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A shortcut or other quick, or very effective way of doing things, that professional workers learn from experience.
   • For the most part, he has some knack, or trick of the trade, which by close inspection can be delected, and so the heart of his mystery be seen into. 1858, Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, page 130:
   • Most customers won't notice this trick of the trade, since the part is not sat upon. 2006, Ed van Hinte, Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture, page 60:
   • We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal. 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
   • There is no trick of the trade which he does not know, no artifice which he does not which he does not habitually practise. 1861, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 520:

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Translations (10)

it trucchi del mestiere (techniques learned from job experience) · nl kneepjes van het vak (techniques learned from job experience) · ja 職歴によって学んだ秘訣 (techniques learned from job experience) · pl tajemnica handlowa (techniques learned from job experience) · fi ammattikikka (techniques learned from job experience) · fi ammattiniksi (techniques learned from job experience) · nl klappen van de zweep (techniques learned from job experience) · he רָזֵי הַמִּקְצוֹעַ (techniques learned from job experience) · fr ficelles du métier (techniques learned from job experience) · nb forretningsknep (techniques learned from job experience)