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

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

One of the company added, "A merry-andrew, a buffoon."

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

If I were to charge a battery, I’d only look like a merry-andrew after all; men will not respect what is only laughable.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

And after a few efforts to better her condition she grew cautious, and hesitated discreetly before returning one of those ingenuous answers which, in the beginning, had made her the merry-andrew of the class.

From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel