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more fun than a barrel of monkeys



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Very amusing or diverting, as in That video game was more fun than a barrel of monkeys . This expression, first recorded in 1895, alludes to the playful behavior of these primates.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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