"how's tricks" meaning in English

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Phrase

Audio: en-au-how's tricks.ogg
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  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) Informal greeting roughly equivalent to How are you? or How's it going? Tags: colloquial, idiomatic Translations (informal greeting): miten menee [informal] (Finnish), kuinka hurisee [informal] (Finnish), ça gaze? (French), Wie steht's (German), hva skjer (Norwegian Bokmål), står til (Norwegian Bokmål)
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