make an ass of
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“I’ll make an ass of myself all day long. I enjoy it; I’ll send up the cliché Hollywood petulant brat.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 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
He’s faint with hunger, and inclined to make an ass of himself even more than usual!
From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John
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