play the clown
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Did that make it hard to play the clown?
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015
“I’d love to do a movie with Shah Rukh Khan in America, where he gets to play the clown and I get the girl,” he said.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2012
Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet too.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet too.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is always the case in an assembly or gathering that some one of the number is foolish, and disposed to play the clown.
From The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends by Mathews, Cornelius