36. Sleight - C2 Vocabulary - Sleight / Sleight of Hand / Sleight pronunciation

Sleight : 숙련, 날랜 솜씨, 교묘한 수완, 요술, 속임수, 술책, 책략

Sleight of hand : 날랜 손재주, 교묘한 속임수

 

Sleight / Sleight of Hand
-> very skillful movement
-> very dexterous, dextrous
-> if you see a magician doing card tricts he uses sleight of hand
-> speed and skill of the hands when performing tricks

-> a deception, a dodge, a trick, a gimmick, a maneuver, a ruse, a stratagem, artifice, some sort of shenanigans

-> use this metaphorically to mean to be very skillful at hiding the truth to get some sort of advantage
-> sleight of hand is skillful manipulation of the statistics 
-> dexterity, skill, light-handedness
-> skillful maneuver 

-> skillful artifice
-> skillful trick
-> skillful deception
-> very deft doing sth
-> sleight poem 
-> good speaker uses linguistic sleight, linguistic dexterity 
-> formality 6

 

 

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