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
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
And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In order to become feuilleton-writer, to play the clown from day to day, entertaining the public and convincing myself that that is necessary and useful to them.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman
