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
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
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
Because the girl had spoken pleasantly was no reason why he should act the fool.
From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Blumenschein, Ernest L.
