a sleight of hand

基本解釋

Mr Straw, your claims are a sleight of hand.
斯特勞，你的索賠是一個花招。
Mr Huckabee says a rate of 23% would suffice, but this is a sleight of hand.
Huckabee先生說23％的稅率足夠了，但是這里耍了一點小手腕。
The application Dr van der Linde made would have steered clear of this problem through a small sleight of hand.
Linde博士的這份申請試圖耍個“小花招”讓問題變得明朗。

Socrates wins the argument in Book I with a kind of, you might even say, sleight of hand.
蘇格拉底贏得了第一冊的辯論,你可能會說，這個作法是花招。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節(jié)選

Republicans rammed through Bush's big marginal tax rate cuts in 2001 with a bit of sleight of hand.
FORBES: If only we knew who they were.
He wants to cut personal and corporate income taxes to 9%, abolish most other federal taxes, and make up for the lost revenue with a 10% sales tax (billed as 9% thanks to a mathematical sleight of hand).
ECONOMIST: The presidential race
Suleiman has a keen eye and ear for the telling detail, but, like the acrobat he shows rehearsing in a Jerusalem parking lot, he is a master of sleight of hand: he constructs his film disingenuously around the politics that he omits.
NEWYORKER: Chronicle of a Disappearance