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
To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan."
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
Such are the moments Fate seizes upon to play the clown!
From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth
