How to Use funny business in a Sentence

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• So there was no chance that there was any funny business with the bike.
  — Mitchell Forde, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2022
• Flip it around, and there’s a 19 in 20 chance that there is some funny business going on.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
• There's not going to be any of that, no funny business going on.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2022
• Darwin gets mixed up in some funny business and Yejide is looking for a way out of the life she's been handed.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 24 May 2022
• Both devices were also in the same room running the same tests side-by-side, so there was no funny business.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The contestants are filmed around the clock so there's no unseen funny business.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Harden hit an option year at the right time, even if there might be some funny business down the road to recoup what sacrificed.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• But Williams, who has faced both teams this season, doesn’t expect any funny business from either.
  — Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
• At a minimum, Musk likely will have to pay a $1 billion break-up fee and endure the wrath of elite circles fed up with his funny business.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 July 2022
• Cartoon though has long ago cast aside funny business to become a rare street artist to become a business leader.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Historically, there’s not much funny business in wine, but Cedric hopes to change that.
  — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2022
• Passengers can book one four-hour session per flight, but there's no funny business allowed — just one person can be in a pod at a time.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 14 July 2022
• This was one of those times when funny business and serious business occurred in short order.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2023
• This was one of those times when funny business and serious business occurred in short order.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2023
• To drive the point home, Citra’s police officer dad is coming to America with her… just to make sure there’s no funny business.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• But the mere idea suggested how extraordinary the rules might have to become to eliminate even a whiff of funny business.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• He’s asked them all to visit the Dawn Project in Santa Barbara to evaluate his team’s methods, and to bring their engineers to see if there’s any funny business going on.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• For anyone who might feel like a trip to a comedy spa, funny business of myriad varieties is blossoming with the spring here.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• For anyone who might feel like a trip to a comedy spa, funny business of myriad varieties is blossoming with the spring here.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Instead of risking getting caught, most pitchers have seemingly gone cold turkey on the funny business.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 July 2021
• Comedian Ilana Glazer doesn't want any more funny business in the beer industry.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Art of Comedy: The Latino comedy festival will include all kinds of funny business, including stand-up, films and sketch.
  — Shawna Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Sep. 2021
• The Art of Comedy: The Latinx comedy festival will include all kinds of funny business, including stand-up, films and sketch.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Romance does not seem to have ever blossomed between Ms. Chips and Vlad, though funny business may have been happening clandestinely.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• Last time around, though, its internal logic with regards to Nadia’s temporal funny business was clear cut enough to warrant an approving piece in The New Scientist.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• There’s no funny business when actor-comedian Kevin Hart talks about his newest venture, a tequila partnership with one of the oldest names in the industry, José Cuervo.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Nonetheless, Alsina insisted that there was no funny business going on.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 July 2020
• No, but that mechanism eliminates most of the funny business associated with the College Football Playoff committee.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Jan. 2023
• Importantly, everything has to be related to spending—i.e., no major policy funny business like voting rights—and the spending included in the bill cannot cost money outside a certain window, generally accepted as 10 years.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 15 July 2021

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024