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"I've been called fool, idiot, boob, bonehead, dink, slob, greenie, soot-covered slob, all the rest," Simpson wrote.
The subtitles for this movie try, variously, "fool", "idiot" and "asshole" - not entirely evasions these, by any means, but neither do they come to the point.
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A year ago I was shocked during a debate amongst a group of Christians when one kept calling other Christians names; names like "fool" and "idiot" and "retard" to name a few.
"And that's the truth, because I was the biggest fool and idiot".
It is more often used in English as a synonym for fool or idiot.
You'd be a fool, an idiot actually, to die to protect money any bank could replace.
"In a lot of Eastern religious literature, even early Western religious literature, you find the 'holy fool,' the idiot who is more conscious of what's going on than anyone else".
I always thought getting the kids to school on time was the issue, particularly on those mornings when, just as you're about to step out the door, they'd announce: "I have swimming", or "I have to dress as my favourite book today!" I'm a shmuck, a fool, an idiot.
They play the fool, the idiot, the innocent.
Archaic definitions for fool include "imbecile, idiot, mentally defective, silly, stupid devoid of wisdom".
She lobbies for precision, she said, and has at times removed "a harsher tone — 'What fools, what idiots.' " Her husband looked up from the screen, to say that ninety-nine per cent of his columns passed through her scrutiny largely unaltered.
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