hugger-mugger

• But come on, you gorbellied, knotty-pated hugger-mugger -- that's playing it too safe! —  Fool.com: The Motley Fool
• The answer, after much hugger-mugger, seems to be: why not make it worse? —  Stop Me Before I Vote Again
• This merger of the United States and China takes the form of distribution systems and computer-based business networks that graft together hugger-mugger the tissue of two profoundly different societies. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
• The trial was all mystery, hugger-mugger, horror. —  Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610b
• It is all hugger-mugger, with miss a-leaving. " —  Foul Play

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