(1) In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, one Peter Palmer, of Lincoln's Inn, brought an action against a barrister of the name of Boyer, for having, with the intention to injure him in his name and practice, said, 'Peter Palmer is a paltry lawyer, and hath as much law as a jackanapes .'(2) I was at a photo call at the Commons to snap a collection of the new input of MPs, a bunch of braying jackanapes and barrow boys made good in too-expensive suits.(3) The grinning jackanapes who has so arbitrarily dismantled the constitution is now half mad with power.(4) u2018Now listen here, you jackanapes ,u2019 I shouted, u2018enough of this horse-play.u2019(5) The grinning jackanapes in Number 10 must not be allowed to extinguish Britain's liberties: he and the Great Uncleanness that is New Labour must be evicted from power.(6) I was at school with a Bruno, and as the grinning jackanapes sat at his piano and segued effortlessly from Bach to the Beatles and back again via Satie, nobody queued up to congratulate him; they simply wanted to beat him up.
