Curly hid a playing card: that'll help in raising! (9,4)

I believe the answer is:

hydraulic jack

'that'll help in raising' is the definition.

'curly hid a playing card' is the wordplay.
'playing' indicates an anagram.
'card' becomes 'jack' (type of playing card).
'curly'+'hid'+'a'='curlyhida'
'curlyhida' is an anagram of 'hydraulic'.
'hydraulic'+'jack'='HYDRAULIC JACK'

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.

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