it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks Idiom, Proverb
bag of tricks
how's tricks
teach you the tricks of the trade
the tricks of the trade
tricks of the trade
you can't teach an old dog new tricks
play jokes/tricks on
Mark Twain liked very much to tell funny stories and he also liked to play jokes on his friends．马克·吐温很喜欢讲有趣的故事，他也喜欢开朋友的玩笑。
Though he knew they were playing tricks on him， he pretended not to notice it．他心里明白他们是在捉弄他，但他佯装不知。
play tricks on
Mark Twain liked very much to tell funny stories and he also liked to play jokes on his friends．马克·吐温很喜欢讲有趣的故事，他也喜欢开朋友的玩笑。
Though he knew they were playing tricks on him， he pretended not to notice it．他心里明白他们是在捉弄他，但他佯装不知。
play tricks
Idiom(s): play tricks (on sb)Theme: DECEPTION
to trick or confuse someone.
• I thought I saw a camel over there. I guess my eyes are playing tricks on me.
• Please don't play tricks on your little brother. It makes him cry.
know all the tricks of the trade
Idiom(s): know (all) the tricks of the tradeTheme: SKILL
to possess the skills and knowledge necessary to do something.
• Tom can repair car engines. He knows the tricks of the trade.
• If I knew all the tricks of the trade, I could be a better plumber.
it's adamantine to advise an old dog new tricks
It is awfully difficult to advise some new accomplishment or behavior to someone, abnormally an earlier person, who is already durably set in their ways. It's abundant that you appetite to advise your grandpa how to use a computer, but aloof be acquainted that it's adamantine to advise an old dog new tricks.Learn more: dog, hard, new, old, teach, to, trickteach an old dog new tricks, one can't/it's adamantine to
The aged cannot or will not change their ways. This adage dates from the sixteenth century, at aboriginal actualization with a accurate acceptation in a book of Husbandry (1523) and again in John Heywood’s 1546 adage collection. It is still current.Learn more: dog, hard, new, old, one, teach, toDictionary
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know sth backwards and forwards know one's way around know one's stuff know one's place know one's ABCs know sb by sight know like the palm of one's hand know all the tricks of the trade know a trick or two know a thing or two about knock-down-drag-out fight knock the props out from under knock sth off knock sth down knock some heads together knock one's block off it's anybody's/anyone's guess it's anyone's/anybody's call it's as broad as it is long it's as broad as it's long it's as well It's been it's been a slice It's been a slice! it's been real it's better to ask forgiveness than permission it's beyond me it's brass monkeys outside it's business as usual it's chucking it down it's crunch time it's curtains it's dogged that does it it's early days it's easy to be wise after the event it's every man for himself it's feeding time at the zoo it's five o'clock somewhere It's for a fact it's for you it's grim up north it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks it's hardly saying much it's high time it's high/about time... it's ill jesting with edged tools it's ill striving against the stream it's ill waiting for dead men's shoes it's just not cricket it's just one of those things it's looking that way it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys it's more than my job's worth it's no crime to (do something) it's no good/use crying over spilt milk it's no picnic It's no picnic! it's no skin off my nose it's no skin off my, your, his, etc. nose it's no use it's no use (doing something) it's no use crying over spilled milk it's no/small/little wonder... it's not cricket it's not even funny it's not funny it's not kosher
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