merry-andrew
Example Sentences
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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
The footmen in yellow were his tumblers and trumpeters, and those in blue his merry-andrew, his apothecary, and his spokesman.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
My very breath was arrested when I saw the merry-andrew you made of yourself.
From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.
—The merry-andrew was here at my side, and I deemed it most prudent to drop a few sous into his cap, and effect my escape.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Pinkney, Lt-Col.
How can one play the merry-andrew under such circumstances?
From Jacques Bonneval by Manning, Anne
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
