1.   That was a mean trick.

2.   Have your wanderlust brains been playing mean tricks on you?

3.   It was no mean trick, and he accomplished it by dint of his mastery of his craft.

4.   Sometimes fate plays mean tricks on people.

5.   Tamahori guides his actors through sometimes unspeakable behavior without losing their sympathetic sides, which is no mean trick.

6.   This is no mean trick.

7.   This was too early for closing day, but the last home game is a movable feast and the game calendar can play mean tricks.

8.   Placido Domingo and Sharon Sweet were Don Alvaro and Leonora, in love and kept apart by continuing mean tricks of fate.

9.   No mean trick.

10.   The proposed referendum is only a mean trick by the Dalai clique and some anti-China western forces to split China.