| 单词 | there's no fool like an old fool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere's no fool like an old fool (c) there's no fool like an old fool and variants: the foolish behaviour of an older person seems especially foolish as older people are expected to think and act more sensibly than younger ones. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ii. sig. Fivv There is no foole to the olde foole. 1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard To Rdr. sig. A iv The wise Old Man..seemes to glance at our English Proverb: No foole to the old foole. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xiv. 183 ‘But there's no fool like an old fool,’ quoth Nicky. 1904 R. Barr Lady Electra 259 They say there is no fool like an old fool, and that is true. 2003 S. Brooke 2cool/2btrue xxi. 192 I suppose there's no fool like an old fool and it sounded kind of young and funky and cool so I put in a few hundred thou. But now of course, I'll never see a Bleep penny of that, will I? < as lemmas |
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