party trick

English

Noun

party trick (plural party tricks)

A trick that could be performed at a party for entertainment.
- 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 64:
  He summarised the situation to me in RAIL 612: "The railway is expanding. Sooner or later, after every engineering party trick, we run out of capacity."

References

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

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