Darling's streak had been, he said, "a big monkey on my back."

The big monkey came off my back just pitching well.

Even to the big monkeys, so very much like us.

This is like a big monkey off my back.

"Would this particular big monkey have a rather gaudy face?"

Like those big monkeys used to live in Africa, what were they called?

"But I think there's a big monkey off his back today."

But an Indian government official knew what to do, and the word went out: get a bigger monkey.

If only all of the world's diplomatic and military problems could be solved with a bigger monkey.

"That is a big monkey to lift off your back."