monkey tricks

plural noun

1. informal.
   mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes

Example Sentences

But Jack was only second to Nero in monkey tricks, and he held on in a most tenacious manner.

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They all had names; and there was a naughty little Alexander, whose monkey tricks made even Sylvia laugh.

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

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The devil take you, and your lies, and your damn monkey tricks!'

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But from all these monkey tricks she found relief in her real music.

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