英语词汇for my next trick的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	for my next trick
词源	for my next trick . . . These words, “followed by a pause,” says lexicographer Tom McArthur, “are especially said by someone who has just botched something.” The expression de- rives from the patter of stage magicians in the 1930s and is a good example of a catchphrase that has become a lasting idiom of the language.
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