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单词 fool trap
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fool trap
fool trap n. something designed to deceive or take advantage of foolish, naive, or gullible people; cf. earlier fool's trap n. at Compounds 4b.
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1631 W. Watts tr. St. Augustine Confessions iii. vi. 119 How much better then are those fables of the Poets and Grammarians, than these foole-traps?
1691 J. Dryden King Arthur Prol. sig. A6v Betts, at the first, were Fool Traps.
1875 H. Sampson Hist. Advertising xii. 314 There is, unfortunately, but too much reason to believe that extra prices are charged for these fool-traps, and that in the most pious and pretentious papers.
2006 R. Sharon My Wicked Pirate iv. 31 Even the brave fall lured into fool traps and dupe themselves with high and noble ideals.
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