hanky-panky [
'hæŋkɪ'pæŋkɪ]
n. 愚弄, 欺诈, 捣鬼, 诡计
- We wanted things to be completely above board and no hanky-panky.
⑤我们要求把事情完全摆在桌面上,而不是鬼鬼崇崇。 - I wish that those teenagers would just stop all that hanky panky and behave, where are their morals?
我真希望这些十几岁的孩子不再做偷鸡摸狗的事情了,他们的道德哪儿去了? - Having been hanky panky with another woman, Mr. B sometimes shows a hangdog look in front of his wife.
(B先生与其他女人有染后,在老婆面前显出有罪恶感的神色。
Hankey-pankey \Han"key-pan"key\, Hankey-pank
\Han"key-pank`\(h[a^][ng]"k[y^]*p[a^][ng]"k[y^]), n. [Cf.
{Hocus-pocus}.] [Also spelled {hanky-panky}.]
1. Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert
attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]
2. Illegal or unethical behavior, usually surreptitious; as,
the boss got suspicious when profits seemed lower than
expected, and hired an investigator to see if any
hankey-pankey was going on. [Informal]
[PJC]
3. Extramarital sexual relations, especially adultery.
[Colloq.]
[PJC]
- But it was 'not doing hanky-panky'. The cover-up came to light, however, when the CBK was asked why it did not meet its foreign debt obligations when it had significant cash reserves abroad.
- Such amenities are part of a $20-million-to-$40-million waterfront development project that has become a minor monument to hanky-panky at HUD.
- For instance, Silent Thunder features a big securities firm which gets up to much hanky-panky, a Japanese prime minister who is deposed by right-wing radicals, and a Japan-bashing American senator with his eye on the US presidency.
- "There was a little bit of hanky-panky involved," she said. "It was done in good taste, but you could sense the lust around you.
- Television stations in Los Angeles, where I was when the Hart story broke, had a certain advantage over East Coast stations, reporting the rapid-fire, back-and-forth allegations about Mr. Hart's alleged hanky-panky.
- Take the hanky-panky uncovered last week at Postipankki.