merry-andrew
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“Persons who naïvely mistake me for a merry-andrew with an inflated pig’s bladder can never understand that I adore whichever tradition I am striving to follow,” he said in a 1980 interview.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2014
—The merry-andrew was here at my side, and I deemed it most prudent to drop a few sous into his cap, and effect my escape.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Pinkney, Lt-Col.
For myself, I jumped and danced about like a merry-andrew, and I found, or fancied I found, myself already a convalescent.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
Your aforesaid merry-andrew brother, Wolfgang in Germany, Amadeo in Italy.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
The whistling match was not so dangerous a contest; the prize was conferred upon the whistler who could whistle clearest, and go through his tune while a clown, or merry-andrew, made laughable grimaces before him.
From Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
