like a fool

Synonyms

foolishly unwisely idiotically

Examples

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. Montesquieu

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it. Alfred Bester

That there is pain and evil, is no rule That I should make it greater, like a fool. Leigh Hunt

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too. Ernest Hemingway

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told. Homer

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool. Arthur Golden

Words in the phrase

like a fool

Close letter words and terms

like a fart in church like a fish needs a bicycle like a fish out of water like a forest like a furnace like a half