party trick

English

Noun

party trick (plural party tricks)

1. A trick that could be performed at a party for entertainment.
2. (by extension) A clever or tricky behavior.

   Synonym: parlour trick

   • 2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code, page 163:

     C++ has a great party trick here: The preceeding ^[sic] line might be in a different file!

   • 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 64:

     He summarised the situation to me in RAIL 612: "The railway is expanding. Sooner or later, after every engineering party trick, we run out of capacity."

References

• “party trick”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.