9 Metaphors for clown
Andy learned that in show vernacular clowns were "joys," and other performers "kinkers."
A CLOWN Is a centaur, a mixture of man and beast, like a monster engendered by unnatural copulation, a crab engrafted on an apple.
With the clown was a monkey.
Andy learned that in show vernacular clowns were "joys," and other performers "kinkers."
The staff poet-clown was no daylight saver; professing to burn the midnight oil in the interest of his employer, he seldom drifted in before half-past nine.
The clown is my favorite, but he's too sad for a wedding.
* The clown in the circusthat is talent, and the waiter in the frock coat speaking to himthat is the crowd; the waiter with an ironical smile on his face.
If it so fall out (as often it doth) that such peasants are preferred by reason of their wealth, chance, error, &c., or otherwise, yet as the cat in the fable, when she was turned to a fair maid, would play with mice; a cur will be a cur, a clown will be a clown, he will likely savour of the stock
We did hear some while our local clown was home, but how much was true and how much his imagination