单词 | to make a fool of |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a fool of (a) to make a fool of: to make (someone) appear foolish, esp. to deceive or ridicule (someone). ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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