"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

His assumption that Brun would be safer with her now seemed utter folly.
He advised the parents though, that it would be "utter folly" to destroy them.
He knew then that waiting for the hunting party to return was utter folly.
To enter that hole ahead knowing no more than I did of what faced me there was utter folly.
It was utter folly to keep my rendezvous with Marlis.
Now Arrhae saw what she'd done as utter folly.
As to becoming superman, that seems to me utter and ridiculous folly.
Concealment is utter folly on my part, for the people will not see.
It was only when the mist held me that I realized my utter folly, for now we might all wander without hope of meeting.
It is utter folly to believe that the full principal can ever be re-paid.

2. pure folly = czysta głupota pure folly

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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