be up to one 's old tricks

be up to one 's old tricks

Repeat the old technique, Chinese idioms, Pinyin is g ù J ì ch ó ngy ǎ n, which means the old trick or old technique, old trick again. From people's daily.

The origin of Idioms

On January 7, 1966, the people's Daily said, "the so-called" stop bombing "is just a repetition of the old technique of the Johnson administration."

Analysis of Idioms

Repeat the old trick

Idiom usage

He continued to play the same game. example a pair of thieves repeated the same trick, but were caught on the spot.