three-card trick

The experienced reader will have no need to be told that we are associating with a gang working the 'three-card trick.'

Now everyone has heard of the three-card trick, though not one in a thousand knows how it is worked.

She was a mystery, just as a juggler or the three-card trick were mysteries, and as such she commanded respect.

It is disagreeable in the same way as discovering a three-card-trick man among a decent lot of folk in a third-class compartment.

Who caught them three-card-trick men after the Lewes races last year?