Sentence examples for an ass of from inspiring English sources

So make an ass of yourself".

Daily Mirror leader "The Met has not only made an ass of the law – it has made an ass of itself too.

He drank, and frequently made an ass of himself on trips abroad.

"No, because they walked everywhere – unless they had an ass, of course".

"It's possible," he admitted," that I shall make an ass of myself.

As Cassavetes tells Carney, "Sometimes you make a fool of yourself, make an ass of yourself".

I think "having made an ass of himself" is just right for "ayant fait le nigaud".

"This ass," he said, indicating the donkey, "was meant for Polly, who has possibly made an ass of herself by not marrying when she could, or who has possibly made an ass of her would-be husband by refusing him.

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make a ass of himself.

"It is an absolute ass of a color," he exclaims, "a greeny-yaller braying insult to the obscure triumph of chartreuse".

(Mathews had his own sobriquet for Graves: "an ass hound of the highest order").