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a few clowns short of a circus
vs
a few fries short of a Happy Meal
a few clowns short of a circus
a few fries short of a Happy Meal
How often have the words
a few clowns short of a circus
and
a few fries short of a Happy Meal
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)