Monkeyed

The standard watch is at the wagon, and must not be "monkeyed" with, a trick sometimes played on tenderfeet. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)

Upside: like many reviewers (especially the pro-Joss ones) he says the second episode — which was originally intended to be the premiere, and which Fox monkeyed with less — is better. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a telephone interview, Ebell questioned NASA's climate data for the 1930s, which he said had been "monkeyed with" by scientists aiming to show anthropogenic climate warming. ❋ Joanna Zelman (2011)

It might be wise for someone to go through these freebies to make sure that the Righteous haven't monkeyed with the text of Darwin's book. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Large numbers of coins have been conserved, dipped, processed and generally monkeyed around with in the past few years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Almost unbearably hip, but very lovely, and they coped remarkably well with a sock-monkeyed toddler in their pristine hipster environment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These volumes has been reissued and monkeyed with over the years it seems, and even last year, yet another release of this Omnibus came out. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

So they changed a few costumes, and monkeyed around with specifics in a few origins. ❋ Chuck Wells (2010)

Now, Richard Whitt -- Senior Policy Director for Google -- announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs: ❋ Unknown (2008)

But let's recall that it's $20 billion for claimants which is aside from and not to the exclusion of the existing law governing the matter, which caps liability at $75 billion in compensation, which is itself in addition to the entire cost of clean up, and it's very possible that the caps on existing law will get monkeyed with in the coming weeks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then we monkeyed our way down, swinging on the reliable trunks and slipping on the misleading terrain back to the truck. ❋ Gail (2009)

The weather monkeyed with some of our plans, and it felt odd to have the A/C running - but when the air's this humid, and it's this close to 30c, there wasn't really a debate between melted_snowball and me about it. ❋ Melted_snowball (2007)

All the while cursing both the network suits who monkeyed with its schedule and promotion, and the general audience who refused to see what a gem this show was. ❋ Toby O'B (2009)

If you know San Francisco at all, you can see how the filmmakers monkeyed around with the city's geography. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I know when I had a deadline for my thesis in grad school, I monkeyed around for a month or two and had to cram everything into about a month there at the end. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If a found explosive sets off because it was monkeyed with, serious injuries of the arms in particular would occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is also part and parcel of their theory of disaster capitalism, an unavoidable and not-to-be-monkeyed-with natural economic phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I did want to change the template on my freelance writing blog, it said I could lose posts and other things so I never monkeyed with it and left it as is. ❋ Harry (2009)