parlour trick
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]parlour trick (plural parlour tricks)
- Synonym of party trick (“trick performed for entertainment”)
- 1992, René Echevarria, “True Q”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Steward):
- You may be nearly omnipotent—and I don't deny that your parlor tricks are very impressive—but morality? I don't see it.
- (figurative) A piece of trickery or falsehood, especially a trivial one.
- Coordinate term: dirty trick