act the fool

Example Sentences

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“Oh,” she now knows, “if I act the fool while Mom is trying to dress me, I may fall over.”

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2019

A longtime acquaintance remembers Sara Roosevelt saying before company, in thoughtless brutality: "Eleanor, don't act the fool!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Yesterday we were under fire, to-day we act the fool and go foraging through the countryside, to-morrow we go up to the trenches again.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Sometimes we act the fool on the bus and attract attention.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones

Pulcifer had a good stand of hay, they agreed, and probably he wouldn't have such a big winter kill this year if he didn't act the fool and sell off too much of it.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon