Sentence examples for bit of a monkey from inspiring English sources

It was a bit of a monkey off my back".

It was becoming a little bit of a monkey.

He said: "Confidence is a big thing and that was probably a bit of a monkey off the back, I hadn't scored many runs before that.

"It feels amazing, you know," said Donald, 33, who jumped to No. 3 in the world from No. 9. "I've had a bit of a monkey on my back for the last few years.

"It's a bit of a monkey wrench in the plans, but nothing we can't handle," said Marty Ryan, the executive producer in charge of political programming at Fox News Channel.

Sometimes the National brings out the best in a horse who is a bit of a monkey and that could be him What A Friend Sir Alex Ferguson's horse proves it's possible to be over-rated and under-rated at the same time.

'He was a bit of a cheeky monkey but he was a good kid at heart.

Resigned, he smokes a bit of opium through a monkey skull and tries to think of something to rhyme with "Mephistopheles".

While Rudyard Kipling spun beloved characters out of creatures like a bear, a tiger, a snake and a panther for his classic story collection "The Jungle Book," he may have been a bit of a vulture himself and made monkey's uncles of his readers — at least according to a letter that suggests he made use of outside sources for a portion of the work.

Fancy a bit of monkey business?

So how best to bring a bit of monkey business to your classes?