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monkeyshine

[ muhng-kee-shahyn ]

noun

  1. Usually monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of monkeyshine1

First recorded in 1820–30; monkey + shine 1 (in the sense of “a foolish prank”)
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“What kind of monkeyshine is this?” he growled.

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“Are you tired of being led astray? Run amok? Highjinks? Monkeyshine? Hornswaggle? Skullduggery?”

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But as a popular-entertainment monkeyshine on the making of musicals, and as the decidedly unspiritual autobiography of a fledgling librettist, the show bumps and bounces along cheerfully enough.

"I did cut a monkeyshine or two," admitted the young man.

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Always up to some monkeyshine.

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