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Make a monkey of someone.
If you make a monkey of someone, you make them look foolish.
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"EVENTS made a monkey of us".
Made a monkey of Mills and Ashley Cole to get a great cross into Kily Gonzalez after 31 minutes.
President Chirac's last reforming government of the centre-right fell, in 1997, soon after the mob had made a monkey of it in just that way.
From "In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All," also collected in "The Small Disturbances of Man": No doubt that is Eddie Teitelbaum on the topmost step of 1434, a dark-jawed, bossy youth in need of repair.
"Do you know who you just made a monkey of?" he rasps in a strained voice.
Where there's lots of wine drinking, and someone lowering himself into the room on a golden chain to wreak havoc, calling another character a "gutless ape" and saying "you made a monkey of me," feel free to think of "Hop-Frog," too.
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Inflation driven by rising commodity prices following the depletion of scarce resources has made a monkey out of monetarism.
They will not acknowledge that inflation driven by rising commodity prices, following the depletion of scarce resources, has made a monkey out of monetarism.
At that moment the luck was with the "Wizard of Was" Zinédine Zidane who made a monkey out of Gianluigi Buffon with his penalty and the eagle-eyed assistant was spot on that it crossed the line.
He made a monkey out of the Brazilian defense, and like a lion ripping the jugular of the throat of an antelope he slammed the ball home, triggering a wild red white and blue celebration.
In effect, the tree had made a monkey out of me so I could help it along by spitting out the seeds.
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