0 a carefully planned way of achieving or dealing with something, often involving a trick: --
Her stratagem for dealing with her husband's infidelities was to ignore them.
He was a master of stratagem.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.