one weird trick

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet. informal
    — The text itself read only slightly less formally and considerably more like a legitimate online resource than what Helen had expected: either a string of gibberish or else something comparable to the meaningless hyperbole of online ads promising to reveal one weird trick to weight loss, sexual stamina, or immense riches.

词源

One of various collocations that were found empirically in A-B testing to have high clickbait effectiveness on humans, at least at the time when they were not yet hackneyed. The choice of words was driven by their clickbaiting power.
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