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
How can one play the merry-andrew under such circumstances?
From Jacques Bonneval by Anne Manning
In one part of the street there was a puppet-show with a ridiculous merry-andrew, who kept both grown people and children in a roar of laughter.
From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Your aforesaid merry-andrew brother, Wolfgang in Germany, Amadeo in Italy.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Ludwig Nohl
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 P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
