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monkey business

An activity that is considered silly, or stupid, or time-wasting.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009

Additional definitions for 'monkey business':

monkey businessAn activity that may be considered illegal, questionable, or a vice, but not felonious.
monkey businessDo your homework and forget about all this monkey business.
monkey businessWasting time, or effort, on some foolish project.
Monkey BusinessTrickery, shady acts, mischievous behavior, suspicious actions
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mind your own businessgive someone the businessmr. all businesslike nobody's businessgrease monkeymonkey wrenchmonkey on one's backmonkey runmonkey see, monkey dolike nobody's businessmind one's own businesssoftly, softly caught the monkeyin businessin business

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