The monkey and a/the football

Posted by RRC on November 28, 2005

In Reply to: The monkey and a/the football posted by m4free on November 28, 2005

: Someone said this to me recently:

: "...just another case of a/the monkey and a/the football."

: Nobody I know what it means...do you?

Someone was trying to be discrete about the phrase "like a monkey f-ing a football". Generally refers to something done extremely ineptly or clumsily, or something that shows a lot of effort but no useful outcome. RRC