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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 1
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 6
(1) human, romantic, incredible
Kolokacji: 3
(2) sheer, youthful, architectural, absolute
Kolokacji: 4
1. sheer folly = czysta głupota sheer folly
2. youthful folly = młodzieńcza głupota youthful folly
3. architectural folly = architektoniczna głupota architectural folly
4. absolute folly = absolutna głupota absolute folly
  • Beyond that, don't feel that you need to buy all the books on the reading list - absolute folly!
  • If the unnamed is pressing you as you suggest, that would be absolute folly!
  • "We would regard that as absolute folly in terms of athletic competition," he said.
  • It is absolute folly to think you can control mortals.
  • "The story of this enterprise demonstrates the absolute folly of proceeding in this fashion."
  • The absolute folly of it gripped me.
  • "I thought it was absolute folly for the trust to spend almost all of its existing assets on the first 21,000 cases."
  • 'At a time of deepening recession, it's absolute folly to be considering cutting back on key public expenditure.'
  • It is absolute folly, Joe, but worthy of your noble heart.
  • "This business of holding a weekend and a fancy-dress ball is absolute 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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