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

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

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

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

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

Beneath is a mountebank, exalted on a stage, eating fire to attract the public attention; while his merry-andrew behind is distributing his medicines.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John