monkey tricks BrE
monkeyshines AmE

It's a big operation they've got there and they won't stand for any monkey tricks."

"What monkey tricks have you been playing here?"

Those are monkey tricks, mere gadgets, complex as they seem to the layman.

Don't suppose he will if he's up to any monkey tricks.'

"The captain doesn't live," said Willie through his teeth, "who can make me do monkey tricks like that."

Lois then gets sick of the boys fighting, so the monkey tricks Peter and Chris into coming to dinner together.

But keep your eye on Blott there, and see that he don't try any monkey tricks."

"I see how it is," I said, "there is not any picture and you are simply playing one of your monkey tricks on me.

And no monkey tricks!

"Enough of your monkey tricks."

"If those Germans try any of their monkey tricks on us, I guess the United States will give them hell," said another voice near by.

The monkey (Finster) acquits himself nicely and knows quite a few monkey tricks.

--did she care about their monkey tricks of knowledge or learning or civic deportment?

Sugden murmured under his breath: "Monkey tricks."

Even a one-eyed kzin's sight was sharp for monkey tricks, but who could tell how a computer was wired?

When he spoke, he spoke very quietly, but I knew at once that he wasn't a man that one could play monkey tricks with.

"I told of your monkey tricks to the lords of Xibalba, and they laughed until they cried.

'Right-oh; you'd better lead the way, and I warn you I'll shoot you if you attempt to play me any monkey tricks.'

He would not have passed the human kind of judgment on the monkey tricks of a boy who thought himself alone; that consoling thought came to me after a while.

"Noo, nyen o' yor monkey tricks, for aw like ne such chaff !"

Power to spare, power to waste, power to shield him from their monkey tricks and petty impediments... Kayla's eyes ached with unshed tears.

Play us no monkey tricks, set for us no foxes' snares, for before your brains of mud have thought of them we shall know and avenge.

Either the Beast or the False Prophet; And by all sorts of monkey tricks Adds up my name to Six Six Six.

'No monkey tricks from you, Oola, or I go straight to Big Master and say "Throw this boy overboard, he no good, Master!"

Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.

I will no longer be distracted by these political monkeyshines.

Some musicians, fed up with the monkeyshines, left after an hour, though the performance was planned for four to five hours.

But I think all this computer monkeyshines is foolishness.

Men and women confessed there that they were looking for love, marriage, and monkeyshines.

Course the serious people frowned on these monkeyshines, but most citizens, out celebrating the day, were just amused.

"But do you think President Bull and the trustees will like these monkeyshines?"

In such grim times as these, we could all use a little of Pierre's high-spirited monkeyshines.

There's liable to be monkeyshines played on that raft, especially after nightfall.

He just licked the dirt off Monkeyshines face.

He can turn sweet sentiments sour and toss monkey wrenches into monkeyshines.

"I think we are now marking the end of the era of such tragic monkeyshines.

They were plotting something worse than monkeyshines.

Beneath all the monkeyshines, Banana Cafe turns out some wholesome and satisfying food.

'This is not the time for your monkeyshines, Sheerin.

Monkeyshines, No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.

It fields a team that has not impressed the voters but affronted them with a series of personal monkeyshines that have overshadowed the political issues.

James' Adam's apple did monkeyshines.

No monkeyshines.

"The Bed Experiment One" contained lots of monkeyshines.

It is later mentioned in episode 20, "Monkeyshines", that he had held Walter Potts captive.

Antagonists in the audience taunted the musicians, some of whom tired of the "monkeyshines" and went home after only an hour had gone by.

"Oh, You know, the usual monkeyshines."

Childish naughtiness, or adult improper or illegal activities (reported 1883 from Monkeyshines ca. 1832)

Several others took their noontime ease along a ledge, one good-size male flashing a wide grin as if rehearsing monkeyshines for a television commercial.