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Trained stagehands do it, con­founding expectations (7,3,4)

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against the odds

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'confounding expectations' is the definition.
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'trained stagehands do it' is the wordplay.
'trained' indicates anagramming the letters (to train can mean to grow something into a shape).
'stagehands'+'do'+'it'='stagehandsdoit'
'stagehandsdoit' anagrammed gives 'AGAINST THE ODDS'.

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