monkeyshines
Example Sentences
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This weekend, anyway, they preferred watching more serious monkeyshines of the Planet of the Apes species.
From Time • Aug. 7, 2011
To make the point crystal clear, Castello Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines.
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An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave, brings the monkeyshines to a high polish.
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Around the league he is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines.
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And I don't aim to take no back-talk from a wall-eyed, long-legged, chuckle-headed brat; that's hired to help his poor old dad and who spends his time cuttin' monkeyshines with a dorg.
From Further Adventures of Lad by Terhune, Albert Payson