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jiggery-pokery

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jiggery-pokery  (old-fashioned)
secret activities that are not honest We suspect there's been some financial jiggery-pokery going on in the accounts department.


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Of course such jiggery-pokery is far from being unknown at the UN but the men--and, trust me, they were men--who took the decision for three Muslim nations to attempt to block support for the massively publicised and vital new 'super agency' for women, are donkeys, not diplomats.
Relive those days of innocent high jinks and general jiggery-pokery with a good helping of pandemonium that went on at the children's Saturday matinees by visiting gazettelive.
The presenter insists there's an upside to all this jiggery-pokery, but he's also keen to stress the darker side of the industry.
 
 
 
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