party trick
noun1
A trick that could be performed at a party for entertainment.
2
Broadly A clever or tricky behavior.
- C++ has a great party trick here: The preceeding ^([sic]) line might be in a different file!2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code, page 163:
- He summarised the situation to me in RAIL 612: "The railway is expanding. Sooner or later, after every engineering party trick, we run out of capacity."2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 64:
- Related terms
- party game