单词 | jiggery-pokery |
释义 | jiggery-pokery From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishjiggery-pokeryjig‧ger‧y-po‧ker‧y /ˌdʒɪɡəri ˈpəʊkəri $ -ˈpoʊ-/ noun [uncountable]British English informalDISHONEST secret dishonest activity to make something seem what it is not There’s been some jiggery-pokery with the figures.Examples from the Corpusjiggery-pokery• This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice.• But according to these figures there's been some jiggery-pokery with the room rates. |
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