figure of fun

Example Sentences

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Again, like a figure of fun, because you can't really pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2023

For many, she was a figure of fun.

From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2022

Every actor to incarnate Poirot has played him differently: Tony Randall’s screwball, Albert Finney’s brilliantined grouch and Peter Ustinov’s avuncular windbag made the Belgian a figure of fun.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

He had not just become a bit-part player in Manchester United’s eyes; he had, to the wider world, become something close to a figure of fun.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Zeus, trying to hide his love affairs from his wife and invariably shown up, was a capital figure of fun.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton