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

Even the school-boys left the merry-andrew and came to gaze, with wide-open eyes, at this tall, strange-looking old man.

From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A merry-andrew at a country town in England, during the Whitsuntide holidays, never excited so great a stir as did the departure of the travellers from the town of Wow.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Huish, Robert

This last mentioned person had been bred with an apothecary, and sometimes travelled the country in the high capacity of a quack doctor, at others, in the more humble station of a merry-andrew.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.

Your aforesaid merry-andrew brother, Wolfgang in Germany, Amadeo in Italy.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig