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
‘No; I don’t like those visitors of yours well enough to see you turned into a merry-andrew to please them.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Your aforesaid merry-andrew brother, Wolfgang in Germany, Amadeo in Italy.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
Cousin Thompson—the ex-grocer of Haggart's Cross—considered swallow-tails and white chokers to be fanciful nonsense: he would not make a merry-andrew of himself to please anybody.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)
It derived partly from the indigenous farce, partly from the Italian comedy of stock personages, and partly from the merry-andrew performances already mentioned.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
