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
To "make a monkey of one's self" might have its advantages from a sanitary point of view.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
There is everything on earth ordered to eat, and all the children in the colony are asked to come and play with you, and you make a monkey of yourself.”
From The Cricket by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)
