play the clown
Example Sentences
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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
To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Quite suddenly I was well again, and began to play the clown, imitating my own behavior in order to deceive the people ashore.
From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula
