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单词 to make a fool of
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to make a fool of
(a) to make a fool of: to make (someone) appear foolish, esp. to deceive or ridicule (someone).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase]
to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330
to glaze one's houvec1369
to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529
to make a fool of1534
to give (any one) the bobc1540
to lead (a person) a dancea1545
to make (someone) an ass1548
to make (a person) an ox1566
to play bob-fool witha1592
to sell any one a bargain1598
to put the fool on1649
to make a monkey (out) of1767
to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869
to string (someone) along1902
to swing it on or across1923
1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes sig. A.viiiv Bonyface perceyuyng that Celestyne was a very goddes creature, and easy to make a foole of, thought surely to shewe hym a poynte of sophestry.
1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 23 The Deane made a foole of the Alderman.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iv. 97 I won't be made a Fool of.
1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 16 Aug. He could not make a fool of me, as he did of Godwin and some other of his butts.
1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. i. 3 The skilled conjuror will make a fool of any man who insists that seeing is believing.
1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xviii. 222 He exploded profanely, telling her in effect that she was making a fool of herself.
2015 V. Khan Unexpected Inheritance Inspector Chopra 210 Nayak had made a fool of him.
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