This expression and its alternative, monkey about, allude to the playful behavior and curiosity associated with monkeys. Making mischief and pulling fun pranks as a family is a seriously fun way to bond, get silly and raise everyone’s spirits. Monkey around To fool around to waste time or loaf to engage in aimless activities also monkey around with, to tinker or play with something, usually out of curiosity to interfere with to tamper with. Our Mischief Festival has returned to The. The current British sense of this term ‘legerdemain, jugglery, sleight of hand’ was apparently the original meaning of hanky-panky, thought to be related to the similar rhyming compound hocus-pocus or its variant hokey-pokey. Two ingenious new plays exploring contemporary Britain today, now playing in The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. Hanky-panky Monkey business, shenanigans, mischief any illegal or unethical goings-on colloquially often used for philandering or adultery. Now the gremlin seems to be extending its sphere of operations, so that the term can be applied to almost anything that inexplicably goes wrong in human affairs. Gremlins are mythical creatures who are supposed to cause trouble such as engine failures in aeroplanes, a curious piece of whimsy-whamsy in an activity so severely practical as flying.
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