play a trick on smb.

play a trick on smb.
(play a trick on smb. (тж. play smb. a trick))
сыграть шутку с кем-л., подшутить над кем-л.

Nor is that the only occasion on which imagination has played me a trick. (Ch. Brontë, ‘Shirley’, ch. XIII) — Это был не единственный случай, когда меня подводило воображение.

...after all he could blame no one for the trick that had been played on him except himself. (A. Sillitoe, ‘Key to the Door’, ch. 28) — ...в конце концов судьба сыграла с ним прескверную шутку, и винить ему некого, кроме самого себя.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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