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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

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

But, wow! he did make a monkey of me.

From The Colossus A Novel by Read, Opie Percival

Do you mean to say--oh, come now, old man, don't stand up there and try to make a monkey of me.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr




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