how's tricks
how's tricks phrase: informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
Phrase
how's tricks?
- Informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
- 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)
- ‘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
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- How's tricks means informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
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