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Qué (quién) es jiggery-pokery - definición
jiggery-pokery
¦ noun informal, chiefly Brit. deceitful or dishonest behaviour.
Origin
C19: prob. a var. of Scots joukery-pawkery, from jouk (see jouk).
jiggery-pokery
If you describe behaviour as jiggery-pokery, you mean that it involves tricking people or being dishonest. (BRIT INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED)
It seems astonishing that Bond got away with so much jiggery-pokery for as long as he did.
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Ejemplos de uso de jiggery-pokery
1. Critics said the Government‘s "jiggery–pokery" would confuse parents looking for the best schools.
2. MPs on the committee claim the Prince‘s duchy has escaped paying millions over the years and have accused his aides of "jiggery–pokery and fiddling" of the accounts.
3. Handing the decision over to a committee made up of technocrats would remove any threat of political jiggery–pokery from monetary policy decisions and would ensure that the right action was taken.
4. More Arsenal v Man United jiggery–pokery "Would Arsenal‘s consistency in the last nine years be in getting knocked out early every time?" asks Daniel Perry and various others.
5. It‘s not mathematically sound and it makes no sense because you are not measuring them properly." Professor Alan Smithers, an education expert from the University of Buckingham, said: "Is this statistical jiggery–pokery telling us anything about the reality of schooling?