monkey business

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (informal) dishonest or silly behaviour: There's been some monkey business going on here.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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monkey businessEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus monkey businessEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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monkey business