do the trick

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do the trick (third-person singular simple present does the trick, present participle doing the trick, simple past did the trick, past participle done the trick)

1. (informal) To work; to be successful; to solve a problem; to be sufficient or adequate to fulfill a purpose.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in King Solomon's Mines:

     [J]ust that little extra second did the trick.

   • 1921, Victor Appleton, chapter 24, in Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters:

     "It was the chemicals from this young man's airship that did the trick!"

   • 2002 April 15, Laura Bradford, “Three Ways To Give Nature A Helping Hand”, in Time:

     Sometimes hormone therapy does the trick, but many infertile couples require more sophisticated manipulation of sperm and eggs.

• do the job
• hit the mark
• turn the trick

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