jiggery-pokery 的定义
Chiefly British.
- trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
- sly, underhanded action.
- manipulation: After a little jiggery-pokery, the engine started.
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- Bottger insisted that the buck-and-wing and the double shuffle and other forms of jiggery were low.
- In all the time they had known him he had never been guilty of anything stronger than “My jiggery!”
- You don't think any jiggery-pokery of this sort is going to snatch Clayton into the world of shades.
- A good fight, a good glass of beer, a good pipe, a good wife—that's what a man needs; no French jiggery and music nonsense.
- She went away with a horrid, stiff, pokery girl called Cassandra Weldon.