Sentence examples for get a monkey from inspiring English sources

I'm not saying anybody else should get a monkey; I wouldn't recommend anybody to have a monkey.

One of them plans to buy a flat and get a "monkey" (£500) a week for rent.

Now maybe psychologically we don't have to feel we have to get a monkey off our back".

Stoke, meanwhile, must reflect on a great opportunity missed to get a monkey off their back as they remain winless and in the relegation zone.

Get a dog or have a baby – just don't get a monkey!" Welcome to the world of primate ownership: the legal position is complex, the ethics troublesome, and even the owners themselves have conflicted feelings about keeping monkeys at home.

The former TMZ photographer recounted that Levin once screamed, "I could get a monkey to do your job!" and, on another occasion, "Do you want me to draw this out in crayons for you fucking idiots?" The former news reporter said that, on one occasion, Levin compared his staff to "a roomful of handicapped people".

We ain't even got a monkey".

"They just got a monkey yesterday," she said.

"Everybody's got a monkey on their back, and they want to give you their monkey.

"When a person is just spooked, we say she got a monkey on her back.

"It really was like getting a monkey off our back," forward Joe Case said.