I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , great , silly , stupid
▪
You're an even bigger ~ than I thought.
▪ absolute , complete , total , utter
▪ poor (= unfortunate)
▪ old (= used to show sympathy, affection or a lack of respect)
▪
The poor old ~ was imprisoned on my account.
▪ young
▪ little
▪
You silly little ~!
VERB + FOOL
▪ feel ( esp. BrE ), feel like
▪
I felt such a ~ when I realized what I'd done. ( BrE )
▪
I felt like a ~ when I realized what I'd done.
▪ look ( esp. BrE ), look like
▪
They had left me looking like a ~.
▪ act like , behave like
▪
Stop behaving like a ~!
▪ suffer
▪
She doesn't suffer ~s gladly.
▪ call sb
▪ take sb for
▪
He had taken me for a complete ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ like a ~
▪
Like a ~, I told her everything.
▪ ~ of a sth
▪
That ~ of a doctor has prescribed me the wrong medicine!
PHRASES
▪ act the ~ , play the ~
▪
Stop acting the ~ and be serious!
▪
Being an actor doesn't just mean playing the ~.
▪ be no ~ , be nobody's ~ (= be too clever to be deceived by sb/sth)
▪
She's nobody's ~. She had the car checked by a mechanic before buying it.
▪ make a ~ of sb/yourself , make a ~ out of sb
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She was angry at having been made a ~ of.
▪ more ~ (sb) ( BrE )
▪
I thought it was safe to leave my suitcase there. More ~ me (= I was stupid to think so) .
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ completely
▪ easily
▪
She's not easily ~ed.
VERB + FOOL
▪ cannot
▪ try to
PREPOSITION
▪ into
▪
He ~ed them into thinking he was a detective.
▪ with
▪
You can't ~ me with all that nonsense!
PHRASES
▪ have sb ~ed
▪
She had me completely ~ed for a moment.