Traducciones de „jiggery-pokery“ en el diccionario inglés » alemán

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jiggery-pokery [ˌʤɪgəriˈpəʊkəri, ingl. am. -ˈpoʊ-] SUST. no pl dated coloq.

jiggery-pokery

Gemauschel nt pey. coloq.

jiggery-pokery

Schmu m RFA pey. coloq.

I think there's been some jiggery-pokery going on in the finance department

ich glaube, in der Finanzabteilung sind so einige krumme Sachen gelaufen coloq.

Ejemplos de uso en el diccionario PONS (revisados por la redacción)

I think there's been some jiggery-pokery going on in the finance department

ich glaube, in der Finanzabteilung sind so einige krumme Sachen gelaufen coloq.

Ejemplos monolingües (no verificados por la redacción de PONS)

inglés

Other methods involve technical jiggery-pokery that can get a little complicated.

www.stuff.co.nz

She describes a "passion for truth" as her primary motivation, and art world jiggery-pokery has become her forte.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Thanks to some clever jiggery-pokery, the one sensor can also be used to monitor all of your plants from just the one pot.

www.pocket-lint.com

Disappointingly, the debate about the possible return of grammar schools has detracted attention away from this key lesson, and no amount of statistical jiggery-pokery can mask such an elementary shortcoming.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

Maintaining data transmission in freefall also took some jiggery-pokery, including a makeshift wireless antenna boosted by an adapted wok and specialist equipment for the freefallers.

www.theregister.co.uk

Clearly there is jiggery-pokery going on.

www.listener.co.nz

With a little jiggery-pokery and a lightening quick reflex, you can minimise the mortification into little more than a raised eyebrow.

www.joe.ie

But they aren't allegations about corporate malfeasance, about financial wrongdoings, about the jiggery-pokery of people that nobody trusts or wants in place.

www.heraldscotland.com

Luckily there were a few frames of him with outstretched arms, which has now become the standard regeneration pose - and with a little jiggery-pokery that became the cover.

www.denofgeek.com

Some people think the concept of corporate personality is a bunch of legal jiggery-pokery.

business.financialpost.com