Hahaha, G.O.B.
Word of the Day for Saturday February 19, 2005
legerdemain \lej-ur-duh-MAIN\, noun:
1. Sleight of hand.
2. A display of skill, trickery, or artful deception.
We are inclined to regard the treatment of [paradoxes]..
. as a mere legerdemain of words.
--Benjamin Jowett, Dialogues of Plato
Their alleged legerdemain at the blackjack table and
roulette wheel of the luxurious Salle Anglaise was caught
on closed-circuit television.
--"Double dealing puts Monte Carlo in a spin," [1]Daily
Telegraph, February 23, 1997
There is a certain knack or legerdemain in argument.
--Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions,
Times
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Legerdemain is from Old French leger de main, literally "light
of hand": leger, "light" + de, "of" + main, "hand."
My favorite thing was when G.O.B. called Lindsay's shoplifting sleight of hand.
CR
legerdemain \lej-ur-duh-MAIN\, noun:
1. Sleight of hand.
2. A display of skill, trickery, or artful deception.
We are inclined to regard the treatment of [paradoxes]..
. as a mere legerdemain of words.
--Benjamin Jowett, Dialogues of Plato
Their alleged legerdemain at the blackjack table and
roulette wheel of the luxurious Salle Anglaise was caught
on closed-circuit television.
--"Double dealing puts Monte Carlo in a spin," [1]Daily
Telegraph, February 23, 1997
There is a certain knack or legerdemain in argument.
--Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions,
Times
_________________________________________________________
Legerdemain is from Old French leger de main, literally "light
of hand": leger, "light" + de, "of" + main, "hand."
My favorite thing was when G.O.B. called Lindsay's shoplifting sleight of hand.
CR