jiggery-pokery
/jig-uh-ree-poh-kuh-ree/US // ˈdʒɪg ə riˈpoʊ kə ri //UK // (ˈdʒɪɡərɪˈpəʊkərɪ) //
抖音,抖擞精神,抖擞精神的人,抖音上有很多人在说
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Chiefly British.
- : trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
- : sly, underhanded action.
- : manipulation: After a little jiggery-pokery, the engine started.
Examples
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.
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