bag of tricks

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help…

   A set of skills, techniques, items of information, or other resources used to help achieve professional or personal goals.

   • "When the time comes I'll go down in the little bag of tricks and dig up anything you need, from a jig dance to a jimmy and a bottle of soup."
   • I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest of the bag of tricks along those lines.
   • Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win.
2. 2

   A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items.

   • Instead of to the credit side of my account he had put the whole bag of tricks to my debit.
   • When it was built fifteen years ago it was considered a model—six bathrooms, its own electric light plant, steam heating, and independent boiler for hot water, the whole bag of tricks.

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