a sleight of hand

基本解释

Mr Straw, your claims are a sleight of hand.
斯特劳，你的索赔是一个花招。
Mr Huckabee says a rate of 23% would suffice, but this is a sleight of hand.
Huckabee先生说23％的税率足够了，但是这里耍了一点小手腕。
The application Dr van der Linde made would have steered clear of this problem through a small sleight of hand.
Linde博士的这份申请试图耍个“小花招”让问题变得明朗。

Socrates wins the argument in Book I with a kind of, you might even say, sleight of hand.
苏格拉底赢得了第一册的辩论,你可能会说，这个作法是花招。
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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