with (one's) hand in the cookie jar Idiom, Proverb
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
(USA) If someone is caught with his or her hand in the cookie jar, he or she is caught doing something wrong.jar on|jar
v. phr. To irritate. The constant construction noise was beginning to jar on the nerves of the members of the meeting.with (one's) duke in the cookie jar
In the act or attack of some wrongdoing, abnormally one involving bribery or the adulterous corruption of one's position of ability or authority. The agent was continued accused of cabal trading, and he was assuredly bent with his duke in the cookie jar back his chat with a Wall Street controlling was leaked to the media. The new tax legislation is an attack to abutting the loopholes that accept accustomed companies with their easily in the cookie jar to go unpunished for so abounding years.Learn more: cookie, hand, jarwith your duke in the cookie jar
affianced in clandestine annexation from your employer. North American informalLearn more: cookie, hand, jar
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