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PRONUNCIATION OF FORM THE FOOL

form the fool play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORM THE FOOL

form class
form critic
form critical
form criticism
form drag
form feed
form feeder
form genus
form leader
form letter
form master
form of words
form room
form tutor
formability
formable
formably
formal
formal calculus
formal dress

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORM THE FOOL

April fool
befool
cool
damfool
damn fool
elementary school
fool
high school
Liverpool
middle school
no fool
outfool
play the fool
pool
preschool
school
swimming pool
tomfool
tool
unfool

Synonyms and antonyms of form the fool in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «form the fool» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

形成傻瓜
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

formar el tonto
570 millions of speakers

English

form the fool
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्ख फार्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تشكيل أحمق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

образуют дурака
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

formar o tolo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বোকা বানান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

former le fou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Membentuk bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bilden den Narren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ばかを形成
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바보를 형성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbentuk wong gemblung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình đánh lừa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முட்டாள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्ख बनवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Aptal oluştur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

formare il pazzo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tworzą głupca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

утворюють дурня
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

forma prost
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποτελούν το ανόητο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vorm die gek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bilda dåre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

danne tosk
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORM THE FOOL»

The term «form the fool» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.551 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORM THE FOOL»

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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
PHRASES 3.1 form (the) fool vb phr (Angu, Antg, BrVi, Dmca, Gren, StLu) To play the fool (with or in a serious matter); to treat a serious matter without seriousness. 'Those who elect a government must look to it for proper leadership; and, if it is ...
Richard Allsopp, Jeannette Allsopp, 2003
2
The King of Fools
Bad form Arlo, very bad form!” The Fool takes out a second card then allows the deck to flutter back into the bag on his belt. He snaps the cards and it slides and becomes a second cane, a perfect match to the one already in his hand. He holds ...
Keith Thomas, 2010
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Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif
... for what is wrong with the Fool's claims. Yet nowhere does the Wise Man disparage storytelling as such. And while the semantic scope of “tale” might encompass utterances that lack narrative form, the Fool is by no means wrong that what ...
Fiona Somerset, 2014
4
Soul Psychology: How to Clear Negative Emotions and ...
In its highest form the Fool represents superconsciousness. In its lowest form it is the Lunatic or Madmanl Madwoman, subject to folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, frenzy, negligence, absence, carelessness, apathy, and vanity.
Joshua David Stone, Ph.D., 2010
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An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot
Because we must think of the Absolute in terms of our own experience, It presents Itself to us in human form (The Fool); but behind this personal seeming the sages discern something higher, typified in this picture by the white sun — an  ...
Paul Foster Case, Voyen Koreis, 2008
6
The life, writings, opinions, and times of ... lord Byron, ...
... in the words of an ancient maxim : " let us take the advice of a fool!" — Accordingly, at a time and place fixed, the heads of the parties assembled together, and took the required adjuration. That done in due form, the fool addressed them thus ...
‎1825
7
Idiocy: A Cultural History
The image was well entrenched in literary form: the 'fool' was often credited with a unique form of grace, or an intangible affinity with the divine (notions which will be explored more extensively in Chapter 6). Johnny Foy is part of this tradition, ...
Patrick McDonagh, 2008
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Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Renaissance Literature
In this musicalizing of form the fool disappears from Lear because a neat explanation of him would musically not clarify but only clog the action. Also the audience went as it goes to a symphony, to be entertained, but with a vague feeling that ...
Northrop Frye, Michael Dolzani, 2006
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Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama
... his purest form . . . the fool, mareriali2ed from a blurted background of anatchic energy."28 Building on these ctitical positions, Richatd Hillman has more recently delineared the role of the subversive "tricksrer" actoss the Shakespeate canon.
Douglas Bruster, 2000
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The Psalms
Introd.). And it is natural to infer from its position that Psalm xiv. was deemed by the compilers the earlier form. THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Arthur Charles Jennings, William Henry Lowe, 1884

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORM THE FOOL»

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Charlie had it coming
And there are some constants. It's generally understood that you're in dangerous territory when you decide to form the fool with a man's religion ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jan 15»
2
The Teflon Teacher
I fell in love with this hirsute lady with brown shoes who said I was “bright” and if I did not “form the fool” I could go on to a “good school”. «Jamaica Observer, Nov 12»
3
'I have outlived my penis'
And he's licensed to form the fool. The poet often wears a mask and speaks out of both sides of the mouth. You can't assume that he or she is ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 12»
4
Rebuilding Jamaican society: Looking to the future
To pretend that the country does not have some blemishes is to form the fool. This Emancipation Day I ask you to take Bob Marley seriously and ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 11»

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