dirty tricks

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.

However, Musk himself has mocked the comparisons, stating on X: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”