English
Noun
dirty trick (plural dirty tricks)
- An unkind trick.
2001, Bob Dylan, “Sugar Baby”, in Love and Theft:Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick / Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick
- (in the plural) Unethical or illegal tactics used against an opponent.
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an unkind trick
- Czech: podraz (cs)
- Danish: svinestreg c
- Faroese: svínagerð f, beistagerð f, skarnsgerð f, illgerð f
- Finnish: ruma temppu
- French: coup de pute (fr) m, coup bas (fr) m, sale coup m
- Galician: porcallada f, falcatruada f
- German: Gemeinheit (de) f, Niederträchtigkeit f
- Polish: świństwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: sacanagem (pt) f
- Spanish: putada (es) f, jugarreta (es), canallada f, cerdada f, mala pasada f
- Turkish: alicengiz oyunu (tr), dalavere (tr), dek (tr) (archaic), desise (tr) (archaic), dolap (tr), düzen (tr), entrika (tr), hile (tr), malaka (dialectal), oyun (tr)
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unethical or illegal tactic
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