brain trick
English
Noun
brain trick (plural brain tricks)
- (obsolete) A stratagem, a clever trick; a ruse.
- 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.4:
- But do I not know these are but brain-tricks?
- 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.4:
- A delusion; a trick of the brain.
- A puzzle designed to exercise the brain.