dirty trick

English

Noun

dirty trick (plural dirty tricks)

1. An unkind trick.
   • 2001, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Sugar Baby”, in Love and Theft:

     Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick / Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick

2. (in the plural) Unethical or illegal tactics used against an opponent.

Synonyms

• cheap trick

Translations

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)

See also

• low blow