Trick and Weasel

Trick

Trick verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.

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Weasel and trick are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weasel" instead a verb "Trick".

Nearby Words: tricky, trickery, trickle, tricked, trickster

Weasel verb - To avoid giving a definite answer or position.

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Trick and weasel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Trick" instead a verb "Weasel".

old	old trick	old weasel
good	good trick	good weasel
best	best trick	best weasel
obvious	obvious trick	obvious weasel
Other adjectives: actual, real, evil, little, sneaky, different.

Later, when they're captured and enslaved at an ironworks, Scruff manages to trick the overseer into taking and playing the ocarina, summoning the demon, which eats the guards (who are mink, and therefore larger and better prey than the weasel slaves, who escape).

Source: Summon Bigger Fish
It's a dirty, rotten, low-down trick, one of The Oldest Ones in the Book, and is a subtrope of Blatant Lies and Weasel Words.

Source: Quote Mine
One episode had Chicken perform a magic trick and pull Weasel out of his hat.

Source: Western Animation / Cow and Chicken

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