how's tricks

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how 's tricks?

(idiomatic, colloquial) Informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going?
- The Grip (Toronto), 12 April 1884:
  He was smoking a cigar (a most unusual occurrence), and a smile of satisfaction lit up his serene countenance. "How's tricks, Harry my boy?" I asked of that gentleman.

Translations

informal greeting

Finnish: miten menee (fi) (informal), kuinka hurisee (informal)
French: ça gaze? (fr)

German: Wie steht's

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