bag of tricks

bag of tricks noun: a set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.

Noun

bag of tricks (plural bags of tricks)

(idiomatic) A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.
- "When the time comes I'll go down in the little bag of tricks and dig up anything you need, from a jig dance to a jimmy and a bottle of soup."1909, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 13, in The Silver Horde
- I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest of the bag of tricks along those lines.1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Right Ho, Jeeves
(dated, idiomatic, often preceded by whole) A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items.
- Instead of to the credit side of my account he had put the whole bag of tricks to my debit.1908, Jerome K. Jerome, “I Had A Vexing Dream One Night”, in The Angel and the Author; and Others
- When it was built fifteen years ago it was considered a model—six bathrooms, its own electric light plant, steam heating, and independent boiler for hot water, the whole bag of tricks.1922, John Buchan, chapter 7, in Huntingtower
Synonyms:

the works, whole ball of wax

எல்லாவிதன்ன சூழ்ச்சிகள்

Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win.1993 March 25, Mike Freeman, “Pro Basketball: Nets Win as Coleman Does His Superman Act”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2011:
But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them—powder, chemicals, lasers and lights.2002 October 21, Sora Song, “Body of Evidence”, in Time:

plural	bags of tricks

An allusion to the collection of props and devices used by a magician.

What does bag of tricks mean?: Bag of tricks means a set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.
What is bag of tricks in Tamil?: Bag of tricks in Tamil is எல்லாவிதன்ன சூழ்ச்சிகள். See Bag of tricks meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bag of tricks in a sentence?: Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win.
What part of speech is bag of tricks?: Bag of tricks is a noun.
What is the plural of bag of tricks?: The plural of bag of tricks is bags of tricks.

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