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

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

The worthy fellow soon became the jester and merry-andrew of the boatswain's mess, where a berth had been kept for him.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules

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

How can one play the merry-andrew under such circumstances?

From Jacques Bonneval by Manning, Anne