Monkeys in sleeves and other delightful idioms
by Melissa Mohr
Jun 06, 2022
2 minutes
I was at a dinner party with a Dutch guest who at one point during the conversation exclaimed, “Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve!” All the non-Dutch speakers were stumped by this phrase, which clearly illustrates Merriam-Webster’s definition of idiom: an expression that
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