"Aunt Sally" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.",
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          "ref": "1905 [1902], Edith Nesbit, chapter VIII, in Five Children and It, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 220:",
          "text": "There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.",
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          "ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter I, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Mrs. Morel did not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the Aunt Sally man, screeches from the peep-show lady.",
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        "A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman."
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          "ref": "1912 November 24, W. B. Maxwell, “The Future of the Novel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "But the novel is something more than a national institution; it has become the recognized channel of communication between the crank and his victims; it is the shooting gallery through which we fire our messages at that dear old Aunt Sally, the British Public.",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, page 95:",
          "text": "He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008 June 26, “Manmohan Singh’s burning ambition”, in The Economist, →ISSN:",
          "text": "IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 March 23, Kyran Fitzgerald, “Stakes couldn’t be higher”, in Irish Examiner:",
          "text": "The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing.",
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        "A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted."
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        "(figurative, chiefly UK) A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted."
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  "etymology_text": "Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.",
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          "ref": "1905 [1902], Edith Nesbit, chapter VIII, in Five Children and It, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 220:",
          "text": "There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter I, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Mrs. Morel did not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the Aunt Sally man, screeches from the peep-show lady.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1999, J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, page 95:",
          "text": "He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 June 26, “Manmohan Singh’s burning ambition”, in The Economist, →ISSN:",
          "text": "IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 March 23, Kyran Fitzgerald, “Stakes couldn’t be higher”, in Irish Examiner:",
          "text": "The finance minister, a true Aunt Sally figure, was dispatched to Moscow in search of backing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted."
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