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
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
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)
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.]
