Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan a few lessons.
This expression and its alternative, monkey about, allude to the playful behavior and curiosity associated with monkeys. Synopsis 1956: The shy Jonathans luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. 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. Full-length Play Cast size: 2m., 2w., playing several roles. 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. noun The act, state, course, or disposition of causing annoyance, trouble, or harm vexatious or injurious operation or tendency the working of damage or. Children delight in mischief-making, and Lowell Swortzell presents it most appealingly.
I scared you, didnt I she asked, her eyes full. Hanky-panky Monkey business, shenanigans, mischief any illegal or unethical goings-on colloquially often used for philandering or adultery. (uncountable) Mischief is the intention to cause minor trouble or the trouble caused. 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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