Indian rope tricks
Indian rope tricks is the plural of Indian rope trick.
Meaning of Indian rope trick
Noun
Indian rope trick (plural Indian rope tricks)
- A magic trick said to have been performed in and around India during the 19th century, involving the climbing of a rope that appears to rise unsupported into the air.
- I asked him if he thought they had any occult or medicinal way of prolonging life or preserving youth, and he said they were supposed to have a great deal of very curious knowledge about such things, but he suspected that if you came to look into it, it was rather like the Indian rope trick -...1933, James Hilton, Lost Horizon, published 1973, page 180
- Synonyms:
- rope trick
Questions about Indian rope tricks
- What is Indian rope tricks the plural of?
- Indian rope tricks is the plural of Indian rope trick.
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