Gambit
Gambit noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Synonyms for Gambit
Ploys
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Gambit Roulette: Many of the ploys designed by the Number Twos involve very convoluted chains of events to work.
Source: Series / The Prisoner (1967) -
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: One of Dutch and Johnny's standard ploys is to pretend that she's his pretty but incompetent assistant.
Source: Series / Killjoys - The Expanded Universe shows that such ploys are such a standard part of Han's repertoire that this trope could be named the "Han Solo Gambit".
Source: Try and Follow
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