Well, Perhaps someone has been playing an elaborate trick on you.

Bolan had hung back far enough to cover all of them in case it was an elaborate trick.

Hasselhoff and Morgan criticized for not having a more elaborate trick.

"Yes, or perhaps it is part of some elaborate trick."

Perhaps this was some kind of elaborate trick.

Or was it some elaborate psychological trick to drive a wedge between us.

Slowly, as if the old man were revealing the end of some elaborate trick, the bishop rolled to one side.

He's devised this elaborate trick to distract his thoughts from approaching death.

Or was it the elaborate trick of an old lady convincing herself that she had a past?

This was either some kind of elaborate trick, or what?