The phrase "a chimp in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, often to describe a situation or metaphor involving a chimpanzee, typically in a humorous or illustrative manner.
Example: "He looked as out of place as a chimp in a tuxedo at the formal event."
Alternatives: "a monkey in a" or "a gorilla in a".
Eloquent, but why are we so enraptured by the sight of a chimp in a blazer smoking a cigar?
Its mascot is a chimp in a postman's hat, and its tagline is the now ubiquitous command: "send better email".
"It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits — a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage".
When I started "The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore," I began to have worrisome Proustian flashbacks of being a chimp in a weird but normal family of very cute chimps in very cute outfits who lived in my house and ate coveted breakfast cereals with me — Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, and Rice Chex — who are maybe on "The Ed Sullivan Show" around the time of the Beatles?
For example, a recent study led by primatologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, gave chimps a choice between two levers: By pulling one, a chimp could earn a snack; by pulling the other, it could earn a snack for itself plus a bonus snack for a chimp in a nearby room.
In a 2007 study, for example, psychologist Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues put a chimp in a room with a clear view of tantalizing pieces of fruit locked behind a door.
She was similar to a chimp in size and her skeleton is a mosaic of both emerging Homo and earlier Pan (chimp) morphology.
We were feeling a bit bewildered by the idea that someone would want the right to torture a bonobo or dress a chimp in high heels, so we headed to the book room for guidance.
The handler would bring a baby wallaby or an albino python or a chimp in nappies; one of the critters would invariably get loose; and the host would get nibbled or mounted.
"I'll go to the store and my daughter will say, 'Daddy, don't look in the corner,' and it's a chimp in the corner," he said with a laugh.
I'd never seen a chimp in worse shape.
