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
I won't allow any old man, dead or alive, to make a monkey of me.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
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.
For instance: The man who imitates his betters is the easiest man to make a monkey of.
From The Silly Syclopedia by Lott, Noah [pseud.]
