Idiom
how's tricks
Meaning
Informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Hey, long time no see — how's tricks?”
“He bumped into an old colleague at the coffee shop and asked, "How's tricks?" with a grin.”
“The retired boxer spotted his former trainer across the pub, raised his glass, and called out, "How's tricks, you old rascal?" — a greeting unchanged by thirty years.”
Examples
simple
“Hey, long time no see — how's tricks?”
contextual
“He bumped into an old colleague at the coffee shop and asked, "How's tricks?" with a grin.”
complex
“The retired boxer spotted his former trainer across the pub, raised his glass, and called out, "How's tricks, you old rascal?" — a greeting unchanged by thirty years.”
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