Legend holds that the session had been sluggish until Presley started "acting the fool" off-tape, singing a version of Arthur Crudup's blues song That's Alright.
Not to say I haven't cut a few fools off [laughs], but for the essential I keep it close.
It's often necessary to mark off two fools or jerks by discrepant heights: Bouvard is tall but pot-bellied while Pécuchet is short.
My four dogs would bark their fool heads off at a squirrel six blocks away, but on this night--zip.
I danced my fool head off".
"Up until Topshop, the worst of his behaviour was playing the fool, showing off, posing for the cameras," he said.
She's hardly a fool, dashing off as she is to her final fervent set of the festival that night.
"So my cell phone was ringing and you picked it up — " "It was ringing its fool head off, doing that dumb riff from 'Purple Rain,' or whatever it is, jumping around on the bed.
"If lots of money were involved, would I still be working my fool head off at age 70?" By then she was working as a cook for a meals program for the elderly in Aberdeen.
The scores have been close, the participants heroic, the plays memorable, and the fans in their painted faces and school-colored garments have been screaming their fool heads off.
For all the commercialism, homogenization and other evils of the modern world, they have brought about this bit of horse sense: when we Tide fans yell our fool heads off on Saturday night, we want a win on the football field, and that is plenty enough.
