jiggery-pokery

• “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.”

  The Guardian: This week: Jacques Chirac, Matt Baker, Alvin Wong

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer

• “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.”

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

• “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..."

• “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.”

  The Guardian: No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis?

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

  conversation at metro diner | clusterflock

• “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 Wall Street Journal: The Smartest Hotel in the World

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

  Agents of Atlas » Comics Worth Reading

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

  The Guardian: There's only one class of joke, and that's funny

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Songs of Love & Death

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