He turns the problems of legerdemain into a happy pastime and entertaining half-hour.
When they have said that they have, they reminded me of the cheap hucksters who induce unsuspecting housewives to sign contracts for goods by legerdemain, concealing the small print.
There was no legerdemain and no concealment.
No economic legerdemain can reduce that fact.
Then there was another little legerdemain.
Indeed, they have managed that piece of political legerdemain quite neatly.
I will put a perfectly simple point and that is, by what legerdemain does a certain portion of a surplus become taxable?
We know very well that it is by a clerical legerdemain that £380,000 has disappeared from view.
