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act the fool

verb as in make a fool of oneself

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Example Sentences

It was not easy to raise kids there because there are a lot of kids also that have excess and then whenever there are kids that have too much excess and too much freedom and not any kind of control in the household, somebody's going to act the fool.

From Salon

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

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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.

“You have to let go of your inhibitions a little bit, kind of act the fool,” said Grant.

They still act the fool I use to be.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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