play the clown
Example Sentences
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Did that make it hard to play the clown?
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015
“I’d love to do a movie with Shah Rukh Khan in America, where he gets to play the clown and I get the girl,” he said.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2012
Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike Margaret, he does not enjoy dancing, because of a childhood polio attack which has left him with a stiffened leg, but he is happy to play the clown at parties.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a safe axiom that those who play the clown do not get confidences.
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
