“Is it time to celebrate? Did your client pay you well?”
“He paid me all right! He paid me a monkey’s allowance.”
“A monkey’s allowance? I didn’t know that monkeys got an allowance!”
“They do, sometimes. Tell me, what does a monkey get from its master once it has performed in front of an audience?”
“Nothing, as far as I know. Maybe the master gives the animal some peanuts.”
“Exactly! He gives the poor animal something to eat. That’s all. So when you say that you received a monkey’s allowance from someone, it means that you got paid a trifling amount for the work that
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