| inf., brit. |
mischievous, suspect, dishonest, or meddlesome behaviour or acts (You try any monkey business and you're in trouble, right?  collinsdictionary.com); behaviour that is not acceptable or is dishonest (The teacher suspected that there had been some monkey business going on while she was out of the room. cambridge.org); dishonest or illegal behavior (There’s been some monkey business connected with his tax returns. • It then occurred to me that there was some monkey business, which is now becoming apparent. • That is not justice; it is playing monkey business with our judicial framework and processes.
cambridge.org); mischievous or deceitful behaviour (She wasn't going to have any monkey business where the reputation of her only daughter was concerned • It seems that 2003 is off to a good start as, this week, DJs big and small will provide many a chance for tomfoolery and monkey business. • I think that when you have the television screens in the courtroom, less monkey business goes on. • When you look at these pictures, you know there was no monkey business, and that I was not sneaking around trying to steal pictures of people. • Was there any suspicion of monkey business in the fire? • After the boy gets booted out of the house, I reassure Dad it was a totally innocent peck and that there was no monkey business going on. • I felt that it would have left things open to what Dan called monkey business. • A quick glance at last week's papers reveals that it's monkey business as usual on Wall Street. • There have been no allegations of monkey business at City Hall since Miller has been mayor and that's good. • That's right I'm a social deviant, I was born with a special talent for monkey business. • He now looks back on his past monkey business with a keen sense of revisionism. • Now go take a shower, and no more monkey business or you'll be late for school, she says grumpily. • Both allege market monkey business by packers who use captive supplies. • Both Max and a persuasive emailer with firsthand knowledge have convinced me that there was no monkey business with the economic assumptions. • What monkey business are you two doing in the middle of the hallway? • There doesn't seem to be any monkey business here. • I had to assure her there was no monkey business going on. • There is some serious monkey business going on here. • You can easily arrange to have whatever files you want turned over in case there's any monkey business. • But you're a different story, you can keep an eye out that the three of them don't get up to any monkey business. • Much more of this monkey business and every riot in every corner of a foreign land will be blamed on provocation by racist locals. lexico.com) |
