parlour trick

English

Noun

parlour trick (plural parlour tricks)

  1. Synonym of party trick (“trick performed for entertainment”)
    • 1992, René Echevarria, “True Q”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Steward):
      You may be nearly omnipotent—and I don't deny that your parlor tricks are very impressive—but morality? I don't see it.
  2. (figurative) A piece of trickery or falsehood, especially a trivial one.
    Coordinate term: dirty trick
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