fool notion
Example Sentences
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It's a fool notion that men go up some heavenly stairway to another plane when they begin to do things worth while.
From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott
De Artigny will make no defense, because he has no witnesses, and because he has a fool notion that he might compromise you by telling the whole truth.”
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Parrish, Randall
And Mr. Popokoulis had saved up nearly that much when he'd got this fool notion of goin' back home into his head.
From On With Torchy by Lincoln, Foster
It's a fool notion that you can take advantage of, or not, as pleases you.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace
"Hell!" he ejaculated, as he passed the tree, "what a fool notion."
From The Two-Gun Man by Seltzer, Charles Alden