hokey-pokey

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They are five cents, and hokey-pokey costs that much -- I mean, for as much as you can eat.

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  • The haunting piano line reminds me ever so slightly of "Your Song" (which I'm a sucker for), and even though the lyrics are a little hokey-pokey ( "Every one of us has to face that day / Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away?"), Elton's vocal sells it harder than —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about? —  MetaTalk
  • "Then why in the world are you doing the hokey-pokey at my baptism?" —  Midwest Conservative Journal
  • He and his people look and sound like a hokey-pokey line on the issue. —  Minstrel Boy
  • You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around, well, unless you're a farm animal Hillary —  The Imperfect Blog
 

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