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Cutting the monkey

Posted by Rene' Pearson on April 23, 2000

In reading Zora Neale Hurston's _Their Eyes Were Watching God_ I've come upon the phrase "cutting the monkey" several times (or variations of it). Anyone know it's origin or meaning?

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