mouth-organ

"What is it, a band or a mouth-organ?" asked Dorothy.

Love Letters 2010

However, the curved leading edge was broken by a series of narrow slots, so that from the front it resembled an overgrown mouth-organ.

Tin 2010

Snubby was in the bus - but he wasn't playing a pretend banjo, he was playing a mouth-organ - or rather, pretending to, his hand up to his mouth, making a most realistic zz-zz-zz noise, exactly as if he were playing a jiggy tune!

Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010

Of musical instruments we had a piano, a violin, a flute, mandolins, not forgetting a mouth-organ and an accordion.

The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations 2009

But the MSM corporate mouth-organ never uses the corresponding term, “the China wage” as being a necessary pre-condition of getting “the China price”.

Auto Industry Supporters Grateful for What They Got - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

But the test of the mouth-organ conceit is in the accuracy, or at least the plausibility, of the analogies.

Tasting the trumpets 2008

But the test of the mouth-organ conceit is in the accuracy, or at least the plausibility, of the analogies.

Do They Taste of Trumpets? 2008

The oldest boy takes a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays “Marching through Georgia” till every head in the car begins to ache.

Main Street 2004

That day I passed by a house where a lad sat on the doorstep playing a mouth-organ.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

He took no notice of me, only wiped his mouth-organ and went on playing.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003