fool notion

Example Sentences

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Now what could have put that fool notion into your head?

From Bolanyo by Read, Opie Percival

"Every once so often some fellers come down here with a fool notion o' cuttin' down the sand bar, an' dredge deep enough to make a inlet int' the bay."

From Janet of the Dunes by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

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

"That's what a man gets for givin' up to a damn fool notion like that," he said, thinking of the fear that had seized him while listening to the shooting.

From Square Deal Sanderson by Seltzer, Charles Alden

Do you want to get yourself in bad by some fool notion of protecting me?

From Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Fullerton, Hugh S.