make an ass of
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“I’ll make an ass of myself and have fun doing it, but I never want him to be the butt of the joke,” he shares.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Why not watch a clip of someone make an ass of themselves and gossip about it?
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2016
McInnis does note that Shakespeare’s words are sometimes both “memorable and original”, as in the case of the phrase “to make an ass of oneself”, which the playwright “seems to have genuinely invented”.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2016
One of the latter is "to make an ass of yourself", a phrase that derives from Bottom the weaver's magical transformation into an ass in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2016
So Trimble was ordered not to make an ass of himself, and the discussion went back to Tempest and his blazer.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
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