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“Is it clip to celebrate? Did your lawsuit wage you well?”
“He paid maine each right! He paid maine a monkey’s allowance.”
“A monkey’s allowance? I didn’t cognize that monkeys got an allowance!”
“They do, sometimes. Tell me, what does a monkey get from its maestro erstwhile it has performed successful beforehand of an audience?”
“Nothing, arsenic acold arsenic I know. Maybe the maestro gives the carnal immoderate peanuts.”
“Exactly! He gives the mediocre carnal thing to eat. That’s all. So erstwhile you accidental that you received a monkey’s allowance from someone, it means that you got paid a trifling magnitude for the enactment that you did.”
“I see. So, is it O.K. to say, I received a monkey’s allowance for the job?”
“It surely is. I was fixed a monkey’s allowance for helping my uncle cleanable his garage.”
“Most of america are usually given…”
“…Would you delight halt monkeying astir with the remote.”
“Monkeying around? Does it mean the aforesaid happening arsenic fool around?”
“Very good. When you ‘monkey around’ with something, oregon someone, you fool astir oregon play astir with it/them. For example, the children were monkeying astir with an aged screwdriver.”
“Some of my friends were monkeying astir successful the playground. How does that sound?”
“Sounds fine. Stop monkeying astir with the scooter and commencement doing your homework.”
“Talking astir scooters, what happened to yours? The seats are each torn up. And the…”
“…there are a batch of monkeys successful the spot wherever I work. And…”
“…of people determination are. I americium looking astatine 1 of the monkeys close now.”
“Ha! Ha! Very funny. Only 1 monkey recognises another, by the way. Anyway, arsenic I was telling you, determination are existent monkeys connected campus. And they tore up the seat.”
“I see. You person monkeys going astir their concern extracurricular the office. I recognize determination is besides monkey concern going connected successful the office.”
“Do you cognize what monkey concern means?”
“Of course, I do. It means a mischievous oregon an amerciable enactment of immoderate kind.”
“That’s right. The students person been awfully quiescent for immoderate clip now. I person a feeling that determination is immoderate monkey concern going on.”
“Some radical judge that determination is immoderate monkey concern betwixt your Chairman and the General Manager.”
“It’s not conscionable the Chairman. A batch of radical are…”
“…Sujatha’s begetter believes…”
“…How is he, by the way? Is he, similar Sujatha, inactive making a monkey retired of you?”
“Making a monkey retired of me? What bash you mean?”
“When you marque a monkey retired of someone, you marque a fool retired of him/her. For example, Sreenivas got truthful drunk astatine the enactment that helium made a monkey retired of himself.”
“At school, each my friends effort and marque a monkey retired of Venkat.”
“It doesn’t instrumentality overmuch to marque a monkey retired of mediocre Venkat.”
“That’s true. Look, there’s Sujatha.”
“Are you trying to marque a monkey retired of me? You cognize that Sujatha is successful Bombay. She is determination to attend…”
“…I know! I know! She went determination to be her cousin’s wedding.”
“That’s right. And she’s expected lone adjacent week.”
“Do you deliberation she misses us?”
“I earnestly uncertainty it. She is with her relative Bharath. I’ve met him a mates of times and that feline is much amusive than a tube of monkeys.”
“More amusive than a tube of monkeys! Does it mean…”
“…It means…”
“…I deliberation I tin conjecture the meaning. If you accidental that idiosyncratic is much amusive than a tube of monkeys, it means that he/she is simply a large woody of fun.”
“Excellent! Here’s an example. Renu’s hubby is much amusive than a tube of monkeys.”
“Our caller maths teacher is much amusive than a tube of monkeys.”
“That’s a bully example. We each had much amusive than a tube of monkeys astatine the circus.”
“At my cousin’s wedding, we had much amusive than a tube of monkeys.”
“Some radical deliberation that Usha is much amusive than a tube of monkeys.”
“Not the Usha I know.”
Quote:
“Divorce is simply a strategy whereby 2 radical marque a mistake and 1 of them goes connected paying for it.” — Len Deighton
Published successful The Hindu connected November 16, 1999
