"Up to no good" nghĩa là gì?

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"Up to no good" -> làm hoặc lên kế hoạch cho một việc xấu; có ý đồ xấu.

Ví dụ
Anyone waiting around on street corners at night must be up to no good.

“When he saw me walk out the first time I caught him I knew he was up to no good because he looked at me, dropped the sock and then ran next door underneath my neighbor’s truck,” she said.

The American people, who had looked up to bankers in the 1920s, now called them “banksters”—gangster-like figures up to no good. The hearings (phiên điều trần) had crafted a narrative (bài tường thuật) about who had wronged them, and how, and prepared the way for Congress to enact sweeping new laws to ensure it would never happen again.

“Looking back now,” Kwan said, “I was a good shape-shifter from a very early age.” During school hours, he was a preppy (học sinh ở trường tư thục) ACS kid, but once classes let out he became a “wild little island child.” There were, back then, still kampongs (làng) in Singapore—simple village compounds, where Kwan and his gang from the neighborhood would get up to no good, stealing baby chickens and climbing trees to pick fruit. Then he’d hear the dinner gong (cồng chiêng), and he’d scramble (phi nhanh) home to clean up and make himself presentable for a wide range of potential guests—his aunt’s artist friends, or visiting dignitaries (người quyền cao, chức trọng), or the finance minister.

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