"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 6

(1) human, romantic, incredible

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 4

(3) utter, pure, complete

Kolokacji: 3

1. utter folly = pełna głupota utter folly

2. pure folly = czysta głupota pure folly

But for the fishers, I might have left my bones there, in pure folly.
"To encourage people to spend less when demand is already falling was pure folly"
But is his return a move of pure folly?
It's pure folly to assume things will simply improve after these events.
Until we know where the attack is concentrated, it would be pure folly for you to bring an expedition here.
At the same time, I think it's confirmation that this project was pure folly from the outset.
But a spokeswoman for the agency dismissed the assertion as "pure folly."
Trying to impose the old restrictions on them would be the purest folly.
If we are the same as we were yesterday, then it is pure folly.
Getting near her again was pure folly, he thought with self-disgust.

3. complete folly = kompletna głupota complete folly

(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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