Friday, August 11, 2006

Hanky-panky


Meaning

Trickery - double dealing. Sexual connotations

Origin

Nonsense terms that was just made up as having an attractive alliteration or rhyme, like 'the bee's knees', 'the mutt's nuts' etc. The words themselves have no inherent meaning, and it was probably a development of the similar term - 'hocus pocus'.

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