Fetch
Fetch noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Trick
Trick noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: her husband used every trick in the book to get out of appearing in his parish's fashion show
Fetch and trick are semantically related in shift topic. Sometimes you can use "Fetch" instead a noun "Trick". archaic substitute
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He's clever enough to trick human beings, hide when his master's attacked and either sneak in to free him or run off to fetch help as needed, and occasionally understand rather specific instructions.
Source: Nearly Normal Animal -
So the narrator goes and gets a dog and teaches it a single trick: to fetch.
Source: Weaponized Animal -
After disposing of his clone with a "Fetch the Grenade" trick, Dukey takes the Clone's weapon and confronts the Johnnys.
Source: Spot the Imposter
Cite this Source
Trick and Fetch. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fetch/trick
Fetch & Trick. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fetch/trick>.
Trick or Fetch. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fetch/trick.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "fetch" and "trick" have occurred on timeline