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monkey tricks

plural noun

  1. informal.
    mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Look here," said Crouch, "I'll have no monkey tricks on board this packet.

Can we suppose, that the unknown power, whom man calls God, presented himself at the altar of a heathen necromancer, and, whispering in his ear, forbade him to perform his monkey tricks to the detriment of his chosen people?

All these monkey tricks are of much easier performance than feeding the hungry, or clothing the destitute.

After having carried his noble charge round the battlements, exhibiting the while various monkey tricks heretofore unknown to nursery-maids, to the no small consternation and amazement of the spectators, he descended with careful foot, ad terram firmam, and replaced the child in the cradle.

I have not withstood Maitland to be won by the monkey tricks and mawkish commonplace of ordinary men.

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