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
If they won't keep company with squirts and dandies, who's going to make a monkey of himself?—Maj.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
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 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
