monkey on a stick
noun
A toy consisting of the figure of a monkey attached to a stick up and down which it can be moved; chiefly figurative or in figurative context as the type of a restless or agitated person.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), poet and writer.
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