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play the fool |
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play the fool to behave in a silly way, often to make people laugh. Teenagers will often play the fool in class when they don't know the answers. |
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"If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself," he said sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, "I can't prevent your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my presence, I will teach you to behave yourself. There was something wrong about it, and he resolved not to caper about and play the fool. "But," said he, as he retired as quickly as possible from the reproaches of Kitty, "I must not play the fool. |
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