dirty tricks

She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).

That idea is often invoked in regards to the tricks memory plays, but I wonder how it might come into play in other ways.

I was so relieved, until I thought about my dirty pantyhose hanging on the shower at home.

If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.

Not one Argentine Jesuit lost his life during the dirty war, and he managed to save dozens of people.

One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"

I shall only be away for six months; you know I have made up my mind to get rid of the whole bag of tricks.

Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.

And from then on the comical little pig learned many tricks.

I'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.