English Explanatory Dictionary

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Black people, in the view of racists, behave badly regardless of their whereabouts or socialization.

Word forms

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

Related words

you can take X out of Y, but you can't take Y out of X
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