pho·nus bo·lo·nus
| \ ˈfōnəsbəˈlōnəs \
Definition of phonus bolonus
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: chicanery, skulduggery, trickery
it was owing to some phonus bolonus on his part that the conflagration had been unleashed— P. G. Wodehouse
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