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*silly as a goose

very foolish. (*Also: as ~.) Edith is as silly as a goose. She thinks that reading aloud to her house-plants will help them grow. The ad in the newspaper said this lotion would make my hair grow back, but I've been using it for a whole month and my hair is still the same. Jane: You're as silly as a goose! Do you believe everything you read in newspaper ads?

See also: goose

bored silly and bored to distraction; bored stiff; bored to death; bored to tears

very bored; extremely dull and uninteresting (Usually an exaggeration.) I was bored silly at the lecture. The dull speaker left me bored to distraction. I am bored to tears. Let's go home.

See also: bore

laugh oneself silly

Fig. to laugh very, very hard. I laughed myself silly when I heard that Steven was really going to give the graduation address.

See also: laugh, oneself

scared silly

frightened very much. I was scared silly by the loud explosion. We were scared silly to go into the park after dark.

See also: scare

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play silly buggers  (British & Australian very informal)

to behave in a stupid or annoying way (often in continuous tenses) Stop playing silly buggers and come down off the roof.

See also: play

the silly season  (British & Australian informal)

a period of time in the summer when there is not much news, especially political news, so the newspapers have articles about events that are not important It's the silly season again, and as usual, the papers are full of stories about the Loch Ness Monster.

See play silly buggers

See also: season