sleight of hand

English

Noun

sleight of hand (countable and uncountable, plural sleights of hand)

The required digital dexterity behind magic tricks and illusions.
A performance of such skill.
(by extension, idiomatic) Any form of skillful deception.

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Translations

skill

Dutch: vingervlugheid
Finnish: sorminäppäryys
French: tour de passe-passe (fr) m, tour de main (fr) m, habileté (fr) f
German: Fingerfertigkeit f
Greek: ταχυδακτυλουργία (el) f (tachydaktylourgía)
Italian: prestidigitazione f
Norwegian: fingerferdighet m

Persian: تردستی‎ (fa) (tardasti)
Russian: ло́вкость рук f (lóvkostʹ ruk)
Serbo-Croatian: opsena (sh) f
Spanish: escamoteo (es) m, prestidigitación (es) f
Swedish: fingerfärdighet (sv) c
Tagalog: bilis ng kamay

performance

Armenian: աճպարարություն (hy) (ačpararutʿyun)
Catalan: joc de mans m
Dutch: goocheltoer
Finnish: silmänkääntötemppu (fi)
German: Taschenspielertrick m

Greek: ταχυδακτυλουργία (el) f (tachydaktylourgía)
Hungarian: mutatvány (hu), bűvészmutatvány (hu)
Latin: praestīgiae f pl
Spanish: escamoteo (es) m, juego de manos (es) m
Swedish: trick (sv) n, knep (sv) n

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