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Prestidigitator

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Prestidigitator 

a conjurer in the circus or on stage who uses the strength, agility, and flexibility of his fingers and especially of his wrists. He performs tricks using small objects, such as cards, balls, coins, kerchiefs, and ribbons, that appear and disappear in his hands. The term “prestidigitator” was used chiefly in the old circus; today such performers are called manipulators.
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Plates of meat swimming in gravy were handed round by boys in white jackets, and as they flung each plate down with the quick gesture of a prestidigitator the gravy slopped over on to the table-cloth.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
But your boss comes in every day as perky and set up as an amateur prestidigitator doing the egg trick.
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