"folly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) realize, know

Kolokacji: 2

(2) build, commit, call

Kolokacji: 3

1. folly built = głupota zbudowała folly built

A gothic folly built by an eccentric as a museum is up for sale.
It was a piece of folly built by a Spanish noble towards the end of the three centuries when Spain ruled the Philippines.
After so many years of submitting to his whims, the complex now recalls a folly built by a mid-19th-century English gentleman, complete with ceramic menagerie.
The beacon is a folly built in 1830 in the style of an ionic temple to a design by Lewis Vulliamy.
There are some 'ruinous' arches in the 'Abbey Gardens', but this is really a folly built in the 1920s.
It looks magical, unreal, a folly built to amuse a child.
Cyfarthfa Castle, an extravagant folly built as a family home by the iron master William Crawshay in 1825, is a museum of local history.
In a recent phone interview, Ms. Pulitzer said her critics saw the foundation "as a rich woman's folly built on the backs of the taxpayers."
Behind the chateau is a red neo-Gothic folly built in the 19th century, most of which has fallen down.
Broadway Tower, a folly built for Lady Coventry in 1797.

2. commit the folly = popełnij głupotę commit the folly

3. call one's Folly = dzwonić czyjś Głupota call one's Folly

adjetivo + folly

Kolokacji: 17

human folly • sheer folly • youthful folly • utter folly • great folly • ...

preposición + folly

Kolokacji: 9

of folly • in one's folly • for one's folly • to folly • from one's folly • ...

folly sustantivo