be up to your tricks

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be behaving in the same bad way as before

   Then there's Amritrao, who'll be up to his tricks and playing to the Indian gallery.

In the movies · 1

• Then there's Amritrao, who'll be up to his tricks and playing to the Indian gallery.A Passage to India1984
• you'd better pack up your bag of tricks and be gone.The Sword in the Stone1963

Learn it in full scenes

• A Passage to India1984
  • Aziz Meets Mrs Moore in the Mosque
  • The Bridge Party at the Club
  • Aziz Invites Them to the Marabar Caves

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