"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. sheer folly = czysta głupota sheer folly
2. youthful folly = młodzieńcza głupota youthful folly
3. architectural folly = architektoniczna głupota architectural folly
  • It was built in 1928 by the Quaker State Corporation, and is an example of an architectural folly.
  • Today, the ruins of church form little more than an architectural folly amongst the gardens of the house.
  • There also is an architectural folly on the property.
  • Actually, nothing like it had been seen anywhere, for Johnson's private architectural folly was one of the 20th century's most innovative modern buildings.
  • The 20th-century Scottish Baronial castles have had the reputation of architectural follies.
  • It is an architectural folly with six stories, 140 feet (43 m) high.
  • But part of the satisfaction comes from knowing that it's all a game, an amusing frolic through a vast architectural folly.
  • They are scattered like architectural follies - a small forest of cabinetry.
  • In pictures: some of Britain's finest architectural follies.
  • Sir Robert Walpole constructed a watertower (1731-1732) with the appearance of an architectural folly.
4. absolute folly = absolutna głupota 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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