"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
  • It might even prove to be sheer folly; they could die in the first few minutes of the descent.
  • I happen to believe in miracles, but it would be sheer folly to depend on them.
  • As for making an attack before the jewels left the store, that would be sheer folly.
  • All the same, the inhabitants' plan to turn it into class M seemed like sheer folly to him.
  • And how do you measure the sheer romantic folly of his ambition.
  • To you, no doubt the sheer folly and madness of such a project will be more than obvious.
  • In my condition it would have been sheer folly to attack a man who was immune to these effects.
  • One might look at such an undertaking as sheer folly.
  • It would be sheer folly to believe a Council of 25 members could ever reach unanimous agreement.
  • That would have been sheer folly aside from what had already occurred.
2. youthful folly = młodzieńcza głupota youthful folly
3. architectural folly = architektoniczna głupota 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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