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单词 to make a fool of oneself
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to make a fool of oneself
(b) to make a fool of oneself: to make oneself appear foolish, esp. to behave in a way which suggests incompetence or a lack of judgement or self-control.
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1590 H. Smith Benefit of Contentation sig. AA Thus the couetous man makes a foole of himselfe.
1654 Mercurius Politicus No. 215 3639 The contriver of that wonderfull ship, having made a foole of himself and the Country, is now no more to be heard of.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. ii. 11 My father had been resolved to make a fool of himself by holding the wig stiff in his left hand.
1865 Harper's Mag. Oct. 674/2 If the Supreme Court was a mind to make a fool of itself, that was no reason that his court should.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh xi. 315 ‘I do wish that this time you would endeavour..not to make a fool of yourself.’.. ‘I'll have a jolly good stab at it, governor.’
2004 County Wedding Mag. 54/2 They weren't going to miss out because of my irrational fear of making a fool of myself in public.
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