| 词汇 | monkeyshines |
| 词源 | monkeyshines; monkey business. “You may have barefooted boys cutting up ‘monkeyshines’ on trees with entire safety to themselves,” observes one of the earliest writers to use monkey- shines, monkey-like antics, which is first recorded in 1828. Monkey business was recorded a little earlier, at the beginning of the century, both words suggested by the increasing number of monkeys imported by America’s growing circuses and zoos. |
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