dirty trick

Perhaps the masters of the dark arts, dirty tricks or marginal gains, depending on how you view such things, were Cambridge United in the early 1990s.

Author Fabcaro and illustrator Didier Conrad have opted for a classic storytelling blend of fights, dirty tricks, local specialities -- and an encounter with Caesar himself.

Russia and Iran have both been named by French intelligence as countries liable to provoke dissension in France through "dirty tricks".

In response, Ukraine said that Russia was playing "dirty tricks" and manipulating the facts.

Now they're going to try that dirty trick on Medicare recipients, while refusing to even consider not slashing taxes on billionaires like Elon Musk.