Definition
A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.
A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items.
Origins
An allusion to the collection of props and devices used by a magician.
In Context
- ""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.""
- "I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest of the bag of tricks along those lines."
- "Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win."
- "But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them—powder, chemicals, lasers and lights."
- "Instead of to the credit side of my account he had put the whole bag of tricks to my debit."
- "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."