"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
(3) utter, pure, complete
Kolokacji: 3
(4) great, greatest, dangerous
Kolokacji: 3
1. great folly = wielka głupota great folly
2. greatest folly = najbardziej wielka głupota greatest folly
3. dangerous folly = niebezpieczna głupota dangerous folly
  • To rouse the sorcerers' ire further might be dangerous folly- but instructive.
  • You will come to think that all this spiritualism, as it is called, is nothing but a dangerous folly.
  • But in doing so he has conceived many a dangerous folly.
  • "Some of what Zhirinovsky says, they like; some, they consider dangerous folly," he said.
  • "Common Sense" becomes a speaking character, continually charging Tertuliano with dangerous folly.
  • Which makes me wary of committing myself too confidently, and has taught me that to vaunt one's knowledge is a dangerous folly.
  • Clean and renewable energy sources should be the basis of our energy supply, not the dangerous short-term folly of nuclear power.
  • He said resisting the "dangerous folly" of the Bush missile shield plan was "more important than keeping this prime minister in 10 Downing Street."
  • During the 2000 presidential debates, George W. Bush mocked the idea of nation-building as a dangerous Democratic folly.
  • Huma opened his mouth to speak but realized that would be dangerous folly.
(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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