make a monkey out of

verb

make a monkey out of

verb

1

Idiomatic To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule.

The rough old sealer swore some terrible oaths, protesting "that he would not make a monkey of himself, by appearing in this garb."1835, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 10, in The Monikins:
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.1960 May 30, “Vive la R”, in Time:

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It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically.2008 April 28, Zafar Altaf, “Changing the resource base in farming”, in Pakistan Dawn, retrieved 04 Oct 2008:

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