make a monkey of
Example Sentences
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Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system.
From Time Magazine Archive
A voice: "Ah need no pussuading that, whethuh o' not a monkey made a man of himself, a man kin make a monkey of himself."
From Time Magazine Archive
But when I suggested that it might be well for you to keep in practice I didn't mean for you to make a monkey of yourself.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
I give you plain instructions what to do at Kamatlah and you let Elliot make a monkey of you.
From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by Wolfe, George Ellis
To "make a monkey of one's self" might have its advantages from a sanitary point of view.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
