make a monkey of
Example Sentences
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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
Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system.
From Time Magazine Archive
You won't; but you'll make a monkey of Rob Marline, and I'll bet on it.
From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.
It strikes me," I said, trying hard to be calm, "that after making the candy he decided to make a monkey of me.
From Back to the Woods by McHugh, Hugh
"Think I'm going to make a monkey of myself at my age?"
From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by Raine, William MacLeod
