the tricks of the trade

Meaning

1. the clever ways of doing things, known and used by people who do a particular job or activity

In the movies · 2

• Use magic. Every last trick in the trade if I have to.The Sword in the Stone1963
• - Thank you. - That's a trick of the trade.Aftersun2022

From the same entry

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