| 单词 | fool's trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool's trap fool's trap n. something designed to deceive or take advantage of foolish, naive, or gullible people; = fool trap n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1617 W. Younger Iudahs Penance in Nurses Bosome 47 Yet this man, as deepe and as politique as he was, how grossely is he here ouer-reached euen by a seely woman; as a man may say catched in a fooles trap. 1714 E. Freke Remembrances (2001) 132 I would signe this lease and..be brought into a fools trapp to seak away eight hundred and fiffty pounds a yeare for three hundred and fiffty. 1776 H. B. Dudley Airs in Blackmoor wash'd White 18 What a whimsical figure of fun! Who baits the fool's trap for himself, And then cries aloud he's undone. 1878 Victoria (Austral.) Parl. Deb. 27 1891 I warn them not to be led into the fool's trap the Council prepare for them. 2016 Western Mail (Nexis) 5 Jan. 27 I've already fallen into the fool's trap of ‘investing’ in new gym gear (not sure clothes ever constitute an investment). < as lemmas |
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