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Sleight of Hand

is artifice by the hand. (Icelandic, slædgh, German, schlich, cunning or trick.)

“And still the less they understand,

The more they admire his sleight of hand.”


Butler Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 3.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sleep (Anglo-Saxon slæpen)
Sleep like a Top
Sleeper (The)
Sleeping Beauty
Sleepless Hat (A)
Sleepy Hollow
Sleeve
Sleeve of Care
Sleeve of Hildebrand (The)
Sleeveless Errand
Sleight of Hand
Sleipnir
Slender
Sleuth-Hound
Slewed
Slick (Sam)
Slick Off
Sliding Scale
Slip
Slippers
Slipshod