"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
(5) Gothic, Victorian
Kolokacji: 2
(6) fiscal, financial
Kolokacji: 2
1. fiscal folly = fiskalna głupota fiscal folly
2. financial folly = finansowa głupota financial folly
  • Pay-per-view has not gone into shamed seclusion simply because the Olympics Triplecast became the very financial folly predicted of it.
  • To dump $18 billion more into the lap of such an institution, without total reform and housecleaning from top to bottom, is financial folly.
  • Jérôme Kerviel's financial folly put him in prison, but others get away with it, says Tracy Corrigan.
  • The last year offered these and other examples of the world's financial follies.
  • Just in time for Christmas "Even if it amounted to financial folly for his company."
  • Whether American Stores is leading the way in giving workers new power or setting the stage for individual financial folly on a grand scale, its experiment bears close attention.
  • This Time is Different: Eight centuries of financial folly.
  • Forget about the West Side's financial folly.
  • Mayor Bloomberg has recognized the financial folly of such large-scale building in an area that needs careful neighborhood development.
  • The result was financial folly - Latin American loan defaults, savings and loan insolvencies.
preposición + folly
Kolokacji: 9
of folly • in one's folly • for one's folly • to folly • from one's folly • ...

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