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The phrase "as a monkey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to compare someone's behavior or actions to that of a monkey, often implying playfulness or silliness.
Example: "He swung from the tree branches as a monkey would, laughing and enjoying the moment."
Alternatives: "like a monkey" or "in a monkey-like manner".
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Anil is as sweet as a monkey".
· In Hartlepool, H'Angus Monkey, a candidate standing as a monkey, was elected mayor.
A keychain that doubles as a martial arts weapon known as a monkey fist or kusari.
Picasso included himself on the drop curtain as a monkey in a laurel wreath.
As a monkey says in BoJack Horseman, "Every day it gets a little easier.
"Drunk as a monkey, which he often was -- after an entire bottle of Scotch," Higgs writes.
As a monkey novice, the babies are the least risky for me to handle.
Daisy Buchanan's "drunk as a monkey" wedding-eve flashback in "The Great Gatsby" comes to mind.
It would be worse to portray a black president as a monkey.
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They noted that this fossil had primitive traits, such as a monkey-size brain, small teeth with sharp cusps, and eye sockets that telescoped out, similar to those of a gibbon.
I used to wonder if that was how my students and the other teachers, even with all their liberal, cultured learning, saw me as a monkey trying to teach their language back to them.
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