0 a person who earns money in the street by playing a musical instrument that is operated by turning a handle
The organ grinder has wisely stayed hidden away in a room.
I shall give way to the organ grinder in a moment.
After all, in a sense he is the organ grinder.
We want the organ grinder not the monkey.
In previous debates we have been given the monkey rather than the organ grinder.
They are always talking to the monkey and never to the organ grinder.
We want the organ grinder, not the monkey.
He is now just the monkey for the organ grinder in the other place.