jiggery-pokery

I would have Donna burning and some sort of Torchwood headband jiggery-pokery delaying mechanism on her so she can think but grows more incoherant as the episode progresses.

Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009

And this point is made flesh, really, by John Lanchester, who illuminated all this nefarious financial jiggery-pokery – but Whoops was a side-dish or an amuse-bouche to the main project, Capital, a great monster of a novel, which does more than illuminate finance: it animates it; and that's when you fully comprehend something, when you can see its face.

No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011

I'm quite good at jiggery-pokery and we had one teacher retire and another land a university job, so here are Kelly and Rachael.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

And I liked seeing the original Avengers used due to some time jiggery-pokery.

Agents of Atlas » Comics Worth Reading 2010

Odd, come to think, as gypsies are generally associated with all manner of jiggery-pokery.

conversation at metro diner | clusterflock 2009

Statistical jiggery-pokery from Gallup concluded that a tall, married with children, Asian-American, observant Jew of over 65, living in Hawaii and running his own business with an income of over $120,000 a year would be the most content person alive today.

This week: Jacques Chirac, Matt Baker, Alvin Wong 2011

The talk was of planning permission, brownfield and greenfield sites and legal jiggery-pokery, but at its heart was the same tricky notion of fairness that beat within Humphrys' programme.

TV review: The Slap; The Future State of Welfare; Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction 2011

Monsieur Ritz would leave in a cloud of financial jiggery-pokery and scandal in 1897, but nothing would tarnish the triumph of the new Savoy, not least because its provision of a bathroom for every bedroom (an almost other-worldly luxury in late 19th-century London) brought more or less every rich American bent on European travel to its wide and welcoming doors.

The Smartest Hotel in the World Julian Fellowes 2010

Don't come to me with your sociological jiggery-pokery; it's all coincidence and barely worthy of remark.

There's only one class of joke, and that's funny 2010

Both these worthies returning unexpectedly at this point, the dog at once spotted what it assumed to be jiggery-pokery taking place, and gave tongue in an altogether proper manner.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010