make a monkey of

Now, hyer," expounded the ex-twister, as they got together over the butchering of a beef, "the way to bump that Hinglishman off is to make a monkey of 'im—skeer 'im up and laugh 'im out o' camp.

You won't; but you'll make a monkey of Rob Marline, and I'll bet on it.

Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system.

A voice: "Ah need no pussuading that, whethuh o' not a monkey made a man of himself, a man kin make a monkey of himself."

I won't allow any old man, dead or alive, to make a monkey of me.