Jiggery-pokery

//ˌdʒɪɡ.ə.ɹiˈpəʊ.kə.ɹi//

"Jiggery-pokery" in a Sentence (7 examples)

'Jiggery-pokery,' said Helena, 'you talk jiggery-pokery. Stop it, can't you?'

Much as 'off-balance sheet' jiggery-pokery and other 'creative accounting' allowed banks to get away with false impressions of their true financial position...

...under the present law, the averages were made up so faithfully and fairly as to prevent any jiggery-pokery.

...what my friend Singleton calls "rigging, cornering, and general jiggery-pokery methods,"...

Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last run.

The hon. Member for Dover is suggesting that if all the facts were revealed, there would be less danger of people thinking that there was jiggery-pokery.

...the males, like most birds, have no penis. But that doesn't stop a bit of gay jiggery-pokery.

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