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"ref": "2020 January 24, Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe (lyrics and music), “Monkey Business”, in Hotspot, performed by the Pet Shop Boys:",
"text": "I'm looking for monkey business / Just playing around / I'm here on monkey business / And look what I found",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting."
],
"links": [
[
"Activity",
"activity"
],
[
"mischievous",
"mischievous"
],
[
"stupid",
"stupid#Adjective"
],
[
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"timewasting#Adjective"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mischief"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"informal",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She wondered what sort of monkey business her neighbour was up to, sneaking out of his house at 1:00 am.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1925, John Dos Passos, “Revolving Doors”, in Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 328:",
"text": "If you ever hear a man talking about his duty as a citizen, by the Living Jingo dont trust him. … He's up to some kind of monkey business nine times out of ten. You dont know what a relief it is to me that you and Joe are comfortably settled in life.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal."
],
"links": [
[
"morally",
"morally"
],
[
"questionable",
"questionable"
],
[
"mildly",
"mildly"
],
[
"illegal",
"illegal#Adjective"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hanky-panky"
},
{
"word": "badness"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"informal",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌŋkɪ ˌbɪznɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-nɪz/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-nəs]",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-nəz]",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌŋki ˌbɪznɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈməŋ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-nɪz/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-nəs]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-nəz]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-monkey business.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/En-au-monkey_business.ogg/En-au-monkey_business.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/En-au-monkey_business.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bãdrami",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "বাঁদরামি"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "惡作劇"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "èzuòjù",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "恶作剧"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǐmíngtáng",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "鬼名堂"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "胡鬧"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "húnào",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "胡闹"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "apenstreek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "ajanhukka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "koirankuje"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bêtise"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "espièglerie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "macaquerie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "singerie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Affengeschäft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Affentheater"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"rare"
],
"word": "Allotria"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roba da matti"
},
{
"alt": "いたずら",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "itazura",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "悪戯"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "magárština",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мага́рштина"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezobrázie",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безобра́зие"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "psoty"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "zbytki"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "figle"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maimuțărie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezobrázije",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "безобра́зие"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ozorstvó",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "озорство́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šálostʹ",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ша́лость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "škóda",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шко́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "валя́ние дурака́ n (valjánije duraká, literally “fulling or milling a fool”)",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "chiefly of children",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "diabluras"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "monería"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "chiefly of children",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "travesuras"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "rackartyg"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sattyg"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "activity that is mischievous, stupid, or time-wasting",
"word": "boş iş"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"word": "venkoilu"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"word": "いんちき"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "inchiki",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"word": "インチキ"
},
{
"alt": "うらこうさく",
"code": "ja",
"english": "dodgy dealings",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "urakōsaku",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"word": "裏工作"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ítrina",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "и́трина"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "świństwa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "machlojki"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xítrosti",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "хи́трости"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "chanchullos"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "juego sucio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "trapicheos"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "activity that is morally questionable or even mildly illegal",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bedrägeri"
}
],
"word": "monkey business"
}
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