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Sleight of hand and no fraud

"Travel to Life"

Phraseologism: Sleight of hand, and no cheating.

Meaning: About a very clever deception, fraud (joking iron.).

Origin: This expression became winged after the film "Start in Life" (1931), where it was the favorite phrase of the hero of the film - a homeless child and a clever thief, Mustafa. This turn, apparently, goes back to the German saying "Eins, zwei, drei! Geschwindigkeit ist keine Hexerei!" - "One, two, three! Quickness is not witchcraft at all," translated by A. Gornfeld: "No witchcraft, but only sleight of hand." According to G. Heine, these are the words of the famous magician Yantien of Amsterdam.

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Meaning:

About the secret, constantly operating mechanisms of any process (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

The title of the book by the well-known leader of the partisan movement in Ukraine, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1942, 1944), Major General (1943) Alexei Fedorovich Fedorov (1901-1989) about the actions of his detachment in the Great Patriotic War. Since 1938 he was the first secretary of the Chernihiv regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, in 1943-1944. also headed the Volyn regional party committee.

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