SINCE 1828
phonus bolonus
noun
pho·nus bo·lo·nus
| \ ˈfōnəsbəˈlōnəs\
Definition of phonus bolonus
2
: 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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