| 单词 | fool catcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool catcher fool catcher n. (originally) a person who tricks, cheats, or swindles another; (later more generally) a person that discovers or seeks out fools; cf. coney-catcher n. 1, fool-finder n. 1. ΚΠ 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C4v They..in fine left mee and my fellowes (their foole-catchers) Lords of the field. 1626 N. Breton Figure of Foure: 2nd Pt. sig. A6 A Foole-catcher, and a Cony-catcher. 1832 T. J. Serle Merchant of London iv. ii. 97 Foolery! I'm a fool-catcher now—a physician; a knave—no fool. 1880 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 10 July 2/2 If the fool-catcher should set on a hunting expedition for recruits to fill up the ranks of his army he could not light upon a more eligible candidate than the married man who runs away with his neighbor's girl. 2014 Free Press (Kinstin, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 4 Nov. I walked in one day to find her eating the Cheetos with a fork. At first I didn't say anything, and after a while she looked at me with a grin and asked, ‘You don't think the fool catcher is going to come after me, do you?’ < as lemmas |
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