Sentence examples for a monkey of a from inspiring English sources
Robert Benchley once said, "The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him".
A corollary worth remembering is that the surest way for an editor to make a monkey of himself is to misquote somebody.
"Do you know who you just made a monkey of?" he rasps in a strained voice.
"If you say, well, rocks don't have consciousness, I want to agree with you" — but he found it difficult to get an imaginative grip on the idea of a monkey with a "sort of" mind.
Then came the best of all as Lamb launched Simpson-Daniel on a mazy run that made a dizzy monkey of a leaden-footed Lawrence Dallaglio.
Unlovable is a chunky little monkey of a book, about five inches by five inches in heighth and width with a depth of maybe an inch and a half.
It was of a monkey with a hot towel.
There were fake Picassos signed by Damien Hirst, packing-tape babies, a Banksy canvas of a monkey wielding a gun.
"People say: 'What will you do when you get back to prison?' I'm in a position of a monkey in a cage being poked with a stick.
According to Tibetan legend, the Tibetan people originated from the union of a monkey and a female demon.
