A prostitute who can only do one position.
Dave: was the prostitute any good?
Carl: nah, she was a one trick pony.
when someone fails doing a skateboard trick and immediately lands another trick so they don't look like a loser.
Joe didn't land the 180 ollie so he did a kickflip as a reputation trick so that he didn't look like a loser.
A ruse performed out of casual self-interest. Mildly disrespectful. Always successful.
"So he found buried treasure while he was digging around in someone else's yard. Get this: he left it there, came back, and bought the property!"
"That's an old Iowa trick, friend."
In sports, a psychological advantage one team or player has over an opponent.
Serena has Venus in the trick bag.
Two or more courses of action, presented as options, that all lead to failure.
Supervisors or managers will resort to this in order to deliberately cause a subordinate to fail. When the employee fails, he or she is counseled or terminated for failing the task.
Last Monday my supervisor gave me a choice of cleaning the entire assembly line in one day or inventorying everything in the warehouse in one day. I chose the inventory and could not complete it in one day so I got fired. My supervisor put me in a trick bag.
I did the Xbox 360 towel trick and then tried it in other places in life and it actually does work everywhere.
when someone is mistaken or confused
“coach just said to do a 3 minute plank, most definitely tricked.