sleight of hand

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

sleight of hand (countable and uncountable, plural sleights of hand)

1. The required digital dexterity behind magic tricks and illusions.
2. A performance of such skill.
3. (by extension, idiomatic) Any form of skillful deception.

Synonyms

• legerdemain
• prestidigitation

Translations

skill

• Catalan: prestidigitació f
• Dutch: vingervlugheid
• Finnish: sorminäppäryys
• French: tour de passe-passe (fr) m, tour de main (fr) m, habileté (fr) f
• German: Fingerfertigkeit f
• Greek: ταχυδακτυλουργία (el) f (tachydaktylourgía)
• Italian: prestidigitazione f
• Norwegian: fingerferdighet m
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• Persian: تردستی (fa) (tardasti)
• Russian: ло́вкость рук f (lóvkostʹ ruk)
• Serbo-Croatian: opsena (sh) f
• Spanish: escamoteo (es) m, prestidigitación (es) f
• Swedish: fingerfärdighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: bilis ng kamay
• Welsh: deheurwydd m

performance

• Armenian: աճպարարություն (hy) (ačpararutʻyun)
• Catalan: joc de mans m
• Dutch: goocheltoer
• Finnish: silmänkääntötemppu (fi)
• German: Taschenspielertrick (de) m
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• Greek: ταχυδακτυλουργία (el) f (tachydaktylourgía)
• Hungarian: mutatvány (hu), bűvészmutatvány (hu)
• Latin: praestīgiae f pl
• Spanish: escamoteo (es) m, juego de manos (es) m
• Swedish: trick (sv) n, knep (sv) n