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
And after a few efforts to better her condition she grew cautious, and hesitated discreetly before returning one of those ingenuous answers which, in the beginning, had made her the merry-andrew of the class.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
Your aforesaid merry-andrew brother, Wolfgang in Germany, Amadeo in Italy.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
It derived partly from the indigenous farce, partly from the Italian comedy of stock personages, and partly from the merry-andrew performances already mentioned.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
In one part of the street there was a puppet-show with a ridiculous merry-andrew, who kept both grown people and children in a roar of laughter.
From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
