Instead of pokey World War II–era planes, the communists deployed MIG fighters that were a match for the best American planes.
If Joey got a year in the pokey, then I hope Bernard L. Madoff lives as long as Methuselah and spends all 969 years behind bars.
No, pokey, people don't kiss in church or put their hats on.
We must live in one of these pokey, dingy houses for ever and ever.
We lived in a pokey little house that we called 'The Tin Shanty.'
You know in this pokey little place no one will ever hear of him.
Put your money on the table, he said, finally: theres the dicks and theres pokey.
She must be a stiff, pokey sort of a person, and I am sure it will be pleasanter without her.
I've got a hunch that if you don't, we go to the pokey and Uncle Peter will be left free to blow up everybody in town.
And if we had been so curious we might have tried to find out things in pokey ways.
"jail," 1919, of uncertain origin; Barnhart says perhaps altered from pogie "poorhouse" (1891), which itself is of unknown origin.
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