Sentences with word «jiggery»

Tony Scott seems to have mistaken a variety of technical jiggery pokery for adequate direction, and the result is a boring and irritating mess, overlong and undercooked.

No amount of jiggery pokery and millisecond technology will make a front wheel drive car four wheel drive car.

DeSilva's debut has everything a crime fan could want: a stubborn, street - smart hero with a snarky sense of humor; a fast - paced plot; a realistic, postmillennium newspaper setting; mean, pot - holed streets; and, best of all, a knowing portrait of a small city and a tiny state famous for jiggery - pokery and corruption.

Sustainability is about so much more than technology - yet stories about sustainable buildings so often get reduced to the energy use, renewable energy systems, or other technical jiggery - pokery.

Use jiggery instead of sugar wherever possible.

Given the extraordinary care Harriet Harman has gone to in order to highlight the funding the Tories are receiving from secretive associations, you'd think there was some of financial jiggery - pokery going on.

To date the largest objects observed to engage in this quantum jiggery pokery are molecules with 60 carbon atoms arranged like the pattern on a traditional soccer ball and 48 fluorine atoms coated on the surface of that sphere.

For the record, Ifans is actually four years younger than Depp, so it's safe to assume that either prosthetic make - up, digital jiggery - pokery, or both will play a large part in Ifans» onscreen appearance.

These formulas are the worst kind of statistical jiggery - pokery (to use a newly current phrase).

Other than a little suffix jiggery - pokery I added to differentiate the package file names — which in itself might not be apparent to all humans, let alone machines — there's nothing to differentiate one rootfile element from the other.

Galactic Civilizations III is getting a new political - themed expansion called Intrigue, which will introduce a slew of political jiggery - pokery.

That's correct, however with a bit of jiggery - pokery... Read more

Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees - Mogg accused the government of parliamentary «jiggery - pokery» and Tory MP Julian Lewis said there was no case for a debate «at the 11th hour».

I swear there is no jiggery pokery here — no falsies, no eyelash curlers, nada.

Look, it's not like we don't know that some jiggery - pokey doesn't go in Avengers 4.

Witness all the jiggery pokery surrounding the much - ballyhooed CAFE standards, in which, for example, auto makers get credits not for a vehicle that actually uses ethanol, but one that is merely theoretically capable, even if no ethanol is actually available!

A jiggery - pokery consultant like CA could even the odds.

Her bloke popped over for some jiggery pokery recently.