do the trick

Meaning

1. Oxford86% of films

   to succeed in solving a problem or achieving a particular result

   Head shots do the trick, but just to be safe

In the movies · 7

• Head shots do the trick, but just to be safeWorld War Z2013
• If your dancing doesn't do the trick, you're just gonna shoot yourself?Joker2019
• That letter will do the trick. Mark my words. I must be off.Sense and Sensibility1995
• That'll do the trick.Up in the Air2009
• Personally, I think they do the trick.What Women Want2000
• For some reason, Indian food seems to do the trick.R.I.P.D.2013
• These puppies ought to do the trick.Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island1998
• They do some tricks there.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008

Learn it in full scenes

• Sense and Sensibility1995
  • John Dashwood's Deathbed Promise
  • The Dashwoods Lose Norland
  • Edward Ferrars Visits Norland

From the same entry

• a bag of tricks
• be up to your tricks
• every trick in the book
• have a trick, some more tricks, up your sleeve
• trick or treat
• the tricks of the trade
• turn a trick
• he, she, doesn't miss a trick
• teach an old dog new tricks
• trick into doing
• trick out of
• trick out

More idioms

• not a bit
• a needle in a haystack
• get out of your system
• go your separate ways
• hands up
• in a manner of speaking
• pick up the pieces
• go back a long way
• have a soft spot for
• in this day and age
• neither here nor there
• take a rain check