"folly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

folly sustantivo

sustantivo + folly
Kolokacji: 7
Ziegfeld Folly • Will Rogers Folly • Street Folly • Ice Folly • garden folly • ...
folly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
Folly Beach • Folly Island • Folly Theater • Folly Bridge • Folly Farm • ...
verbo + folly
Kolokacji: 5
realize one's folly • know as one's Folly • folly built • commit the folly • call one's Folly
adjetivo + folly
Kolokacji: 17
human folly • sheer folly • youthful folly • utter folly • great folly • ...
(1) human, romantic, incredible
Kolokacji: 3
1. human folly = ludzka głupota human folly
2. romantic folly = głupota romantyka romantic folly
  • On the other hand, he could dismiss my belief in Simon as romantic folly.
  • If this is not a feint, a romantic folly, then some substantial building stood here.
  • I say it is romantic folly.
  • He would be a good husband to her; they would have children, and when he was a father he would cease to be bothered by romantic follies.
  • And how do you measure the sheer romantic folly of his ambition.
  • I cannot bear this stupid romantic folly.
  • He required someone exactly like Rosalind: older, of good family, and safely past the age of romantic folly.
  • Their stories, dating back 150 years, hint of romantic folly or grand adventure.
  • But although she wondered, she could not help loving him the better for his odd combination of Spartan self-control and what appeared to her romantic and childish folly.
  • What but youth can echo back the soul of youth - all the music of its wild vanities and romantic follies?
3. incredible folly = niewiarygodna głupota incredible folly
(3) utter, pure, complete
Kolokacji: 3
(4) great, greatest, dangerous
Kolokacji: 3
(5) Gothic, Victorian
Kolokacji: 2
(6) fiscal, financial
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + folly
Kolokacji: 9
of folly • in one's folly • for one's folly • to folly • from one's folly • ...

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