bag of tricks

bag of bones

A skinny, malnourished person or animal.

brown bag

A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime.

give someone the bag

To disappoint (someone).

how's tricks

Informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?

let the cat out of the bag

To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently.

mixed bag

Something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages.

squint like a bag of nails

To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.

the cat's out of the bag

It is too late. Particularly used of secrets that have been exposed.