"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
  • "It appears to me to be fiscal folly to vote on such a large, expensive contract not knowing where the city is going," said Mr. Spanakos.
  • But they are positioning themselves between the House and fiscal folly.
  • The fiscal folly that we have followed for more than a decade has brought us to a crossroads.
  • When Republicans in Congress sought a tax cut of that scale several years ago, it was derided by Democrats as fiscal folly.
  • When the economy is operating below capacity - as is true now - deficit reduction is fiscal folly.
  • Beginning in 1830, Cresson saw in the national organization's finances a lack of accountability and rising debts, and he warned them against such fiscal folly.
  • To get back each year nearly four times what he paid in a lifetime is, to Mr. Keith, fiscal folly.
  • But as a result of the last decade's fiscal follies, those resources are not now available for public purposes.
  • That move essentially put state government into the business of insuring automobiles, a complicated job that proved to be fiscal folly.
  • He positions himself as an outsider, taking aim at the clubby Washington elites and what he calls their annual "fiscal follies."
2. financial folly = finansowa głupota financial folly
preposición + folly
Kolokacji: 9
of folly • in one's folly • for one's folly • to folly • from one's folly • ...

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