The melodies are recommended to street organ-grinders, if any still exist.
Charles Dickens, among others, got organ-grinders banned from the streets of London once upon a time.
New trades and entertainments became dependent on resourceful immigrants from poorer countries: in the early 19th century, Italian organ-grinders multiplied through London, with their monkeys.
The funhouse atmosphere will also include loonie hotdogs, free popcorn, face-painting, buskers, an organ-grinder, and roving improv performers.
I remember with a peculiar vividness an organ-grinder who came around with a monkey, and the accuracy with which the monkey could catch a ball.
1.1A person in control of another.
I'm not just a monkey dancing to the organ grinder's tune
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After all, why bother choosing the monkey when you can own the organ-grinder?
He had originally intended to stand against the Defence Secretary, but was persuaded to, in his words, ‘take on the organ-grinder rather than the monkey’.
To which one might well ask - so why vote for the Tory monkey when we can vote for the Labour organ-grinder?
Trimble remarked: ‘I don't want to talk to this monkey. Where's the organ-grinder?’
Definition of organ grinder in US English:
organ grinder
nounˈôrɡən ˈɡrīndər
A street musician who plays a barrel organ.
Example sentencesExamples
I remember with a peculiar vividness an organ-grinder who came around with a monkey, and the accuracy with which the monkey could catch a ball.
The funhouse atmosphere will also include loonie hotdogs, free popcorn, face-painting, buskers, an organ-grinder, and roving improv performers.
The melodies are recommended to street organ-grinders, if any still exist.
Charles Dickens, among others, got organ-grinders banned from the streets of London once upon a time.
New trades and entertainments became dependent on resourceful immigrants from poorer countries: in the early 19th century, Italian organ-grinders multiplied through London, with their monkeys.