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Meaning of monkey business in English

(Definition of monkey business from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of monkey business

monkey business
It then occurred to me that there was some monkey business, which is now becoming apparent.
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That is not justice; it is playing monkey business with our judicial framework and processes.
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I hope we shall have some elucidation about the timing of the next stage of the monkey business which is described as the revised code.
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When its financial incompetence and mischief were discovered, it tried to involve other councils in the same monkey business.
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Another bit of monkey business.
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Translations of monkey business

in Chinese (Traditional)
騙人的把戲, 惡作劇…
in Chinese (Simplified)
骗人把戏, 恶作剧…
in Spanish
diabluras, trapicheo, travesuras…
in Portuguese
macaquices, falcatrua, procedimento condenável…
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singeries, combines…
düzenbazlık, dolandırıcılık…
kattekwaad, zwendel…
lumpárna, švindl…
snyderi…
urusan ilegal, permainan curang…
สิ่งไม่ชอบมาพากล…
trò hề…
szachrajstwo, kombinowanie…
ofog, fuffens…
urusan tidak sah…
krumme Tour…
bløff, lureri…
пустощі, дурощі…
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