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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