"A barrel of monkeys"

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UffishThought
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"A barrel of monkeys"

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Did the toy come first, or did the group name come first?

Also, a "gaze of raccoons." Ha! I love these.
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yayfulness
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Re: "A barrel of monkeys"

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Wikipedia says that the phrase is older than the game.
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Katya
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Re: "A barrel of monkeys"

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Google ngram viewer also shows hits from before 1965 for the phrase: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?co ... g=3&share=
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