noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a complete fool/idiot etc
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Meg realized she’d been a complete fool.
play the idiot/the teacher etc
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Susan felt she had to play the good wife.
village idiot
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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He can either be a hero or the biggest idiot in the world.
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Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot .
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Sly was not this big an idiot .
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Ben Wright is also a big fat idiot .
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Anna You're a big idiot .
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A big idiot is what they'd say.
bloody
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If you couldn't handle your booze then you were a bloody idiot to drink and drive, that was not negotiable.
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I am the sinner or the bloody idiot .
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It was all your fault, you bloody idiot .
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I was a bloody idiot to think that that had anything to do with it.
complete
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Spike looked at her as if she was a complete idiot .
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And like complete idiots , we yearned for a close look.
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Afterwards I had my myocardial infarction in my office, feeling a complete idiot .
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He felt a complete idiot for having misjudged the moment so badly.
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He made a complete idiot of himself over that, and I swear it wasn't done deliberately.
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Then he began to feel a complete idiot .
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I developed a pretty good ear, although I started out as a complete idiot .
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But please, Mama, Lucinda pleaded silently, don't treat me like a complete idiot .
■ NOUN
village
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Then old man Grierson treats me like the village idiot .
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The ladies were patient, as no doubt they always are with village idiots .
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Pharaon is to all intents and purposes a simpleton, a virtual village idiot .
■ VERB
feel
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I felt a right idiot , being carried out on a stretcher, everybody gawping at me.
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It made me feel like an idiot .
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I felt an idiot , blacking out like that.
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But he felt like an idiot , a golf impostor.
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Afterwards I had my myocardial infarction in my office, feeling a complete idiot .
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For about 20 minutes I waved this damn thing and felt like a total idiot .
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He felt a complete idiot for having misjudged the moment so badly.
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Petey felt like an idiot again.
look
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I could look a real idiot if I don't use it.
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That made him look like an idiot .
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Anything but a lucky accident might well make him look an idiot .
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Teachers ran the risk of looking like idiots or liars.
play
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Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet.
think
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You think he's an idiot , because he gets things wrong-the background, the politics, Walter, us.
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Nobody, of course, thought Switzer was an idiot for accepting such a prestigious and well-paying job.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prize idiot/fool
blithering idiot
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Today provides a more immediate issue- the final opportunity for cricket to show it's not administered entirely by blithering idiots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stop treating me like an idiot -- I can count you know!
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Whenever I phone the bank I get through to some idiot who sounds about twelve years old.
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You idiot ! What did you do that for?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then, like an idiot , I go down.
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I fear he is truly an idiot .
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I must have managed an expression half way between a brave smile and the grin of an idiot .
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I would be an idiot to recommend it to the leader.
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If you couldn't handle your booze then you were a bloody idiot to drink and drive, that was not negotiable.
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Only a very disinterested idiot could miss, and be unimpressed by, either.
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You think he's an idiot , because he gets things wrong-the background, the politics, Walter, us.