Monkey

“Following monkeys, apes, and other creatures in their habitats, these scientists turned their notes and observations into voluminous, quantitative data. […] Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist ⟳—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.”

“Chimpanzees are known to form ⟳ bands to hunt and kill ⟳ other monkeys.”

“Stop ⟳ misbehaving, you cheeky little monkey!”

“"Yes. He gets to Paris at seven in the morning. He promised to telephone the first thing." "You expensive little monkey!" "Why?" "It's ten shillings for three minutes, or something like ⟳ that, and you have ⟳ to go to the G.P.O. or the Mansion House or some such place ⟳, I believe ⟳."”

“No, no, no, not you. I want ⟳ to talk ⟳ to the organ grinder, not the monkey.”

“code monkey”

“grease monkey”

“phone monkey”

“Someone handed me a monkey of grog. I forced myself to sip it, not down it.”

“[I] gave her a monkey — just half my last ⟳ thou — and started to earn ⟳ some more.”

“A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys Or a whole fifty scores”

“I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like ⟳ a dog, and told me I might consider ⟳ myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know ⟳ how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]”

“Reminded me of running up that hill by the Marne – or was it the Morin? – in 1914 when Kearey had got his face ⟳ ripped open ⟳ by a bullet and Hedley had got his monkey up [Lost his temper, Ed.] over the Huns killing 8 of my platoon.”

“Monkey: a habit, as in "I have ⟳ a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.”

“"Man, I wasn't hooked, I was crucified. The monkey got so big he was carryin' me. […] When I hear ⟳ a junkie tell ⟳ me he wants to kick ⟳ the habit but he just can't I know ⟳ he lies even if he don't know ⟳ he does. He wants to carry ⟳ the monkey, he's punishin' hisself for somethin' 'n don't even know ⟳ it. […] Then I got forty grains 'n went up to the room 'n went from monkey to nothin' in twenny-eight days 'n that's nine-ten years ago 'n the monkey's dead." "The monkey's never dead, Fixer," Frankie told him knowingly.”

“I thought I would like ⟳ to learn ⟳ about the dope scene anyway, and the boy must have ⟳ some character, you know ⟳, if he got the monkey off his back (as they used to say ⟳ in our time) without outside help ⟳.”

“Everybody's got something to hide ⟳ except for me and my monkey.”

“Do the Monkey, yeah, Do the Monkey, yeah, Ah, twist ⟳ them hips, Let ⟳ your backbone slip ⟳, Now move ⟳ your feet, Get ⟳ on the beat ⟳...”

“C'mon everybody! C'mon in! Bobby's goin' to show ⟳ you how to do the swim ⟳. Kinda like ⟳ the monkey, kinda like ⟳ the twist ⟳ Pretend ⟳ you're in the water and you go like ⟳ this.”

“Do the monkey, do the pony / Do the slop, do the boogaloo twist ⟳.”

“...Used to the do the monkey But now it's not cool...”

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