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

And such false teachers have the good fortune that all their folly is tolerated, even though the people realize how these act the fool, and rather rudely at that.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas