"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

(4) great, greatest, dangerous

Kolokacji: 3

1. great folly = wielka głupota great folly

2. greatest folly = najbardziej wielka głupota greatest folly

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
Perhaps Mr. Mobutu's greatest folly was not paying his soldiers.
The greatest folly would be to make Taiwan part of such a system.
Chapter Ten The greatest folly is to believe that evil can be overcome by reason.
I have weaned them from their greatest folly: the desire to gorge themselves with crime.
"Ah, but that would be the greatest folly of all."
It was the last and greatest folly performed by the former people of this planet.
Believe me, in the years to come, America and Britain will rue this as their greatest folly.
The good woman was predictably aghast at the journalist's latest and, in her opinion, greatest folly.
Our refusal to place it there is the greatest folly.

3. dangerous folly = niebezpieczna głupota 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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