"make a monkey out of" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "makes a monkey out of",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a monkey out of",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a monkey out of",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a monkey out of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a monkey out of"
      },
      "expansion": "make a monkey out of (third-person singular simple present makes a monkey out of, present participle making a monkey out of, simple past and past participle made a monkey out of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1835, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 10, in The Monikins",
          "text": "The rough old sealer swore some terrible oaths, protesting \"that he would not make a monkey of himself, by appearing in this garb.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 May 30, “Vive la R”, in Time",
          "text": "Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system. . . . Doctors in many départements went on informal strike.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 April 28, Zafar Altaf, “Changing the resource base in farming”, in Pakistan Dawn, retrieved 2008-10-04",
          "text": "It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule."
      ],
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          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "ridicule",
          "ridicule"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "make a monkey of"
        }
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "make a monkey out of"
}

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  "forms": [
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      "form": "makes a monkey out of",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "making a monkey out of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a monkey out of",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "made a monkey out of",
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  ],
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        "1": "make<,,made> a monkey out of"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1835, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 10, in The Monikins",
          "text": "The rough old sealer swore some terrible oaths, protesting \"that he would not make a monkey of himself, by appearing in this garb.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 May 30, “Vive la R”, in Time",
          "text": "Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system. . . . Doctors in many départements went on informal strike.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 April 28, Zafar Altaf, “Changing the resource base in farming”, in Pakistan Dawn, retrieved 2008-10-04",
          "text": "It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule."
      ],
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        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "ridicule",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
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    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "make a monkey of"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a monkey out of"
}