# how's tricks

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/hows-tricks
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

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

## 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.

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