fooling
present participle offool
| 单词 | fooling |
| 释义 | fooling present participle offool fool verb uk/fuːl/us/fuːl/B2[IorT] totricksomeone: Don't be fooled by hisappearance. She said she was doing it tohelpme, but I wasn't fooled. Tim was fooledintobelievingthat he'dwona lot ofmoney. to deceive someone
you could have fooled me!informal used totellsomeone that you do notbelievewhat they have just said: "Really, I'm veryhappy." "You could have fooled me."
Cheating & tricking
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Not believing Phrasal verbsfool around fool withsomething Examplesoffoolingfooling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We would befoolingourselves in thinking that we were appreciating and understanding the art and works of other cultures. From theCambridge English Corpus On the other hand, the third-person mode is also, definingly,fooling. From theCambridge English Corpus Foolingourselves with child autonomy and assent in nontherapeutic clinical research. From theCambridge English Corpus It has fooled some of us for some of the time, but it now risksfoolingus all of the time. From theCambridge English Corpus Long before the college-age students have come to equate childlike explorations with embarrassment and 'foolingaround'. From theCambridge English Corpus Audience members arefoolingthemselves if they relate to him in any other way. From theCambridge English Corpus She is notfoolingherself. From theCambridge English Corpus We were onlyfoolingaround. From theCambridge English Corpus Those who think—if anyone holds such a view—that lawyers will not have a field day arefoolingthemselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Those who think that the two cases can be treated separately arefoolingthemselves and risk making the world a more dangerous place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 All it needs is some children to befoolingaround or a bully pushing a youngster against the side for an accident to happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We arefoolingourselves if we believe that our state secondary system is able to make even a dent in that gap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us stopfoolingourselves in the face of the facts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They may succeed infoolingsome journalists and some of the public. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We should befoolingourselves if we pretended that that was likely to happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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