merry-andrew
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“Persons who naïvely mistake me for a merry-andrew with an inflated pig’s bladder can never understand that I adore whichever tradition I am striving to follow,” he said in a 1980 interview.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2014
For myself, I jumped and danced about like a merry-andrew, and I found, or fancied I found, myself already a convalescent.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
In one part of the street there was a puppet-show with a ridiculous merry-andrew, who kept both grown people and children in a roar of laughter.
From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
How can one play the merry-andrew under such circumstances?
From Jacques Bonneval by Manning, Anne
—The merry-andrew was here at my side, and I deemed it most prudent to drop a few sous into his cap, and effect my escape.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Pinkney, Lt-Col.
