Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

every trick in the book

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables: ev-ery trick- in the -book
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

All possible knowledge of a subject matter.

noun

All possible means, both honest and dishonest.

Example Sentences

"He was always one step ahead of me, as he seems to know every trick in the book."
"The solicitor tried every trick in the book to get me to sign the contract, but I wasn't having any of it!"
""Eurostar was running one train a day, so we had a massive revenue shock, and what was very real for us was the whole of our cashflow model changed. We didn't have the revenue, so we to pull every liquidity method and trick in the book to survive. You didn't have to do that on the rest of the network [because of government financial support]."

Questions

What does every trick in the book mean?: All possible knowledge of a subject matter.

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