tip the gaff
English
Verb
- To give away how a magic trick is accomplished.
- 1989: "A Couple of Eccentric Guys" by Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker
- Penn and Teller see their style as rejecting the assumption that “the people in the audience are ignorant savages who will fall at our feet and worship us for performing supernatural miracles.” Penn may enjoy describing the “Penn & Teller” approach to magic as tipping the gaff...
- 1989: "A Couple of Eccentric Guys" by Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker
- To reveal a disguise or something hidden.
- 1914: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 42, "The Parasite" by George Bronson-Howard
- Lady! She couldn't disguise herself as a lady with that Slavonic map of hers tipping the gaff, and those heavy hoofs of hers.
- 1914: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 42, "The Parasite" by George Bronson-Howard
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