A standard trick used whenever a government is in trouble.

Static trapeze routines are choreographed from a number of standard tricks, movements, and positions, including:

Are you assuming I'll pull the standard super-villain trick of being only temporarily dead?

He performed standard European magic tricks, but attempted to bill them as great Oriental feats.

The audience comes to see the skaters' virtuosity, the standard tricks known as elements.

That's the one I read, noting its nice deployment of the standard tricks.

The standard trick used in similar cases has been to delay release and extract an admission of guilt, while concealing news of an amnesty.

The two boys set out, and Krillin uses all the standard tricks to trip Goku up.

I should be careful of this standard trick.

As you say, it's a standard trick.