0 too emotional or artificial and therefore difficult to believe:
1 too emotional or artificial to be believed:
Half in, half out—the hokey-cokey approach will not work.
It may well be a hokey-cokey amendment, but its weakness is not that it is too bold, but that it is far too modest.
That is not in the least so because of the hokey-pokey method of measuring that part of the excess which is due to armament profits.
In that way, he would no longer have to play that game and do the hokey-cokey.
You do the hokey cokey and you turn around: that's what it's all about.
It is obviously the hokey-cokey clause.
To put it another way, the inspector could take the kidneys out, shake them all about and then return them in a sort of porcine hokey-kokey.
It is a hopeless hokey-cokey provision.
