organ grinder 
noun
1A street musician who plays a barrel organ.The melodies are recommended to street organ-grinders, if any still exist....
- 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.
1.1A person in control of another: I’m not just a monkey dancing to the organ grinder’s tune...
- Trimble remarked: ‘I don't want to talk to this monkey. Where's the organ-grinder?’
- 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’.
With reference to the tradition of an organ grinder's keeping a monkey trained to collect money
- solemnise
- solemnity
- solemnization
- solemnize
- Solemn League and Covenant
- solemnly
- Solemn Mass
- solemnness
- solenodon
- solenoid
- solenoidal
- Solent
- pillar and scroll clock
- pillar and scroll top clock
- pillar and stall
- pillar apostle
- pillar block
- pillar box
- pillar-box red
- pillar bracket
- pillar buoy
- pillar clock
- pillar cross
- pillar dollar
- pillar drill