up to your old tricks

up to your old tricks
up to (your/its) old tricks doing something you or it has done before.

House Republicans are up to their old tricks again, promising to cut taxes for everyone and then giving most of the tax cuts to the very wealthy.

Usage notes: usually said about an attempt to deceive someone

New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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