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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
trick or treat
▪ I. trick or treat [trick or treat] BrE NAmE
a traditional activity at ↑Halloween, in which children dress in costumes and visit houses. At each house they say ‘Trick or treat?‘ This means that they threaten to play a ‘trick’, or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a ‘treat’, e.g. sweets or money. The practice of ‘trick or treat’ began in the US in the 1930s but is now common in Britain also.
▪ II. ˌtrick or ˈtreat idiom
said by children who visit people's houses at Halloween and threaten to play tricks on people who do not give them sweets/candy
Main entry: ↑trickidiom
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