Sentence examples for make a monkey of himself from inspiring English sources

A corollary worth remembering is that the surest way for an editor to make a monkey of himself is to misquote somebody.

This may sound like extreme advice, but, if anyone is going to make a monkey of the Vice-President, surely it should be a primatologist rather than a Wolf.

Ms. Hsiang makes a monkey of herself, scrunching up her face and scratching her sides.

Robert Benchley once said, "The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him".

"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.

But for the course of this elegantly designed and executed period mystery, it's ever so satisfying to watch an intelligent man of science make a monkey out of the ignoramuses who would too soon take over this civilized ­society.