Makes it sound like a trained monkey in a traveling circus.

The healer looked at him as if a trained monkey had addressed her.

I was like a trained monkey that he liked to show off to his friends.

He might as well have been a trained monkey.

He was here as a trained monkey in a dress uniform.

"A bunch of trained monkeys - that's what the media are," said an elderly man watching.

They must be up and down that ladder like trained monkeys.

"Say, for your trained monkey I can find you a bed and somebody to warm you in it!"