Examples of use of monkey around
1. Writer–director Rian Johnson clearly loves the Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler novels – and the movies derived from them – far too much to monkey around with the formula.
2. "These are lies." He indicated, however, that Russia would not "monkey around" if Kosovo declared independence and the West recognized it.
3. Pazit Shavid, manager of the Jerusalem branch of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, says the Interior Ministry and Prime Minister‘s Office can monkey around with semantics as much as they wish, but it‘s still simply a revival of the Safdie plan.