monkey-business

And there was no monkey-business or foolishness at all in those days.

Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1986

'You said yourself a while back you wasn't old enough for that kind of monkey-business!'

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

I looked at Little Jim, and he was still stooped over stroking Mixy who was standing up now and stretching herself and reaching up with her front claws and doing some kind of monkey-business with Little

Shenanigans at Sugar Creek Paul Hutchens

It was the first break he had had in which to give his mind to the various brightly coloured threads which made up the puzzle, and at the moment it looked the most impossible knot of human monkey-business he had ever seen.

More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

It was the first break he had had in which to give his mind to the various brightly coloured threads which made up the puzzle, and at the moment it looked the most impossible knot of human monkey-business he had ever seen.

More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

"Cut out the monkey-business with those damn firecrackers of yours and look here -- pure, solid force, like ball lightning or our Op field, but entirely different -- see if you can analyze the stuff!"

The Galaxy Primes 1927

(We used to call this kind of thing "monkey-business").

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Those inventors and pioneers who came out of New England and made this country from a hunting-ground into an empire -- they didn't have all this monkey-business in technical schools and trade schools.

The Women of Tomorrow 1910

This monkey-business is too irksome and humiliating to be true; he waives it aside, with a sneer at the disgusting arguments of those Englishmen.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

I'm going to talk to you man to man, Leon, and no monkey-business about it nor nothing.

Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905