B2 [ I or T ] to trick someone:. Don't be fooled by his appearance. She said she was doing it to help me, but I wasn't fooled. Tim was fooled into believing that he'd won a lot of money. Don't be fooled by his pleasant manner - he's pretty ruthless beneath that nice exterior. I'm not easily fooled. You can't fool me! She was fooled into handing over the money. He fooled a lot of people. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Not believing.
Phrasal verbs fool around. Examples of fooling. We would be fooling ourselves in thinking that we were appreciating and understanding the art and works of other cultures. From the Cambridge English Corpus. On the other hand, the third-person mode is also, definingly, fooling. Fooling ourselves with child autonomy and assent in nontherapeutic clinical research.
It has fooled some of us for some of the time, but it now risks fooling us all of the time. Long before the college-age students have come to equate childlike explorations with embarrassment and ' fooling around'. Audience members are fooling themselves if they relate to him in any other way. She is not fooling herself. We were only fooling around. Those who think—if anyone holds such a view—that lawyers will not have a field day are fooling themselves. From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive.
Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. Those who think that the two cases can be treated separately are fooling themselves and risk making the world a more dangerous place. All it needs is some children to be fooling around or a bully pushing a youngster against the side for an accident to happen. We are fooling ourselves if we believe that our state secondary system is able to make even a dent in that gap.
Let us stop fooling ourselves in the face of the facts. They may succeed in fooling some journalists and some of the public. We should be fooling ourselves if we pretended that that was likely to happen. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. I can see there's no fooling you , Anakin. There is just no fooling you , my lord. Suggest an example. No more fooling around until you tell her.
There'll be no fooling around. And one of those rules is no fooling around among the staff. No fooling around with clients and always be prepared. Seriously, though, no fooling around in here. Oh, Doctor, fooling you once was a joy but fooling you twice the same way? It's a privilege. I'm not surprised he's been fooling you since , Brunner Gowron is the one who's fooling you.
I could not be fooling you less. I mean, it thinks it's fooling you. I wouldn't dream of fooling you. But, sir, your mind is fooling you again.
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