Another Handy Phrase

Jiggery-pokery

Definition: dishonest or suspicious activity; nonsense Example: "[Greece] flouted European Union rules on the limits to budget deficits; its national accounts were a moussaka of minced statistics, topped with a cheesy sauce of jiggery-pokery." – Jeff Randall, The Telegraph, May 20, 2010 About the word: Jiggery-pokery is an alteration of joukery-pawkery. Both joukery and pawkery are English regionalisms for "trickery." [with thanks to Merriam-Webster]