the tools of one's trade
the tools of the trade

But stealing the tools of your trade when you are out in the middle of the night is macabre.

The state of the team's offense requires that your bat be one of the chief tools of your trade, as well.

"I'd say you threw away the tools of your trade as soon as you saw you were about to be caught.

'It's a bit hard to sit down comfortably when you're so encumbered with the tools of your trade, you know.'

"You don't seem to have a great deal of faith in the tools of your trade, Mr. Helm."

If you were exhibiting Lummie in a carnival, he'd be the 'tools of your trade,' wouldn't he?

'Ask no questions of us, old man,' retorted Hugh, waving his comrades to be silent, 'but come down, and bring the tools of your trade.

"I am considering - this shouldn't bore you, since words are the tools of your trade - I am considering the comical and tragical scantiness of all vocabularies.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you."