Sentence examples for a trained monkey from inspiring English sources

"I'm a trained monkey.

Responding Like a Trained Monkey.

He might as well have been a trained monkey.

Obama looks like a trained monkey compared to Putins polished and clever moves on the International chessboard.

Not to mention this gem: I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger.

In Palmyra, Syria, I once refused to buy a $4 T-shirt from a child hawker, prompting his outraged query: "Why are Americans so cheap?" On the other end of the spectrum, at a roadside stand in rural India, I handed a man with a trained monkey the equivalent of $10, a ridiculous amount that would support his family (and the chimp) for days.

An adult male monkey was trained to perform a two-dimensional target-reaching task.

Sitting across from Judit at an elegant restaurant, Peter sees the "Transdanubian peasant girl" in her, scorns her clichéd literary references and regards her newly sophisticated manners as a pantomime, as if she were a highly trained monkey.

"If tomorrow there was a trained monkey at the head of the New York Times, that trained monkey would be the one invited to the White House," she remarked.

Or first; Jim Winstead, Jr., who blogs at Trained Monkey, sent me a link to this post from December.

We trained monkey F to perform the steering task while fixating an independent, stationary fixation point.