did the trick

Maybe she had been wondering up to that point if I was indeed her flesh and blood, but mentioning the biscuit did the trick.

This was brought down over a century: growth, the gold standard and the commitment to balanced budgets did the trick (see chart).

Since his period in office coincided with the longest recovery in years, people concluded it must have been the reform that did the trick.

it was a long-distance telephone call from my daughter, my fellow college freshman, that did the trick.

A picnic did the trick for Denise Winston, a money &time saving expert based in Bakersfield, California.

When the landlady relented, it was good, old-fashioned Chinese values that did the trick.

After several rounds of tests, the scientists identified a trio of genes that together did the trick.

I don't know what it was that did the trick, but I am definitely feeling much better.

Then they became less skeptical. His diagnosis on the baby next door did the trick.

Adding a return false to the end of the handler created in 5 did the trick.

Being too clingy, especially in front of their friends did the trick with embarrassing ease.

When even a pocket camera was too conspicuous, this fountain pen camera did the trick.

My new look was boring, frumpy and did the trick perfectly.

B. Congratulations! What did the trick?

That did the trick, and in January Susan was offered a four figure sum.

For Mr Lin, another argument did the trick.

I think that did the trick.

A compact weight (a box full of change did the trick for me)