make a monkey of
Example Sentences
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A voice: "Ah need no pussuading that, whethuh o' not a monkey made a man of himself, a man kin make a monkey of himself."
From Time Magazine Archive
Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is everything on earth ordered to eat, and all the children in the colony are asked to come and play with you, and you make a monkey of yourself.”
From The Cricket by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)
This crusher which threatened all his plans and promises would make a monkey of him in New York, he reflected.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
But when I suggested that it might be well for you to keep in practice I didn't mean for you to make a monkey of yourself.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
