Hey, long time no see — how's tricks?
how's tricks
idiomInformal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
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.