always damage or break them. A day late and a dollar short (USA) If something is a day late and a dollar short‚ it is too little‚ too late. A fool and his money are soon parted This idiom means that people who aren’t careful with their money spend it quickly. ’A fool and his money are easily parted’ is an alternative form of the idiom. A fool at 40 is a fool forever If someone hasn’t matured by the time they reach forty‚ they never will. A fresh pair of eyes A person who is brought in to examine
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In 2006‚ Brothers David and Tom Gardner started a community database to help consumers choose stocks. Developing the concept of longer-term investments over extended periods‚ versus the forecast method based on timing and risk. Motley Fool‚ the name chosen for the firm‚ asked staff to interview the firm’s top 18 investors to discuss lessons learned from the demise of Lehman’s Brother Stock at the five-year anniversary mark. Seth Jayson has learned to invest a little
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much); universals (all‚ both‚ every‚ each); and partitives(any‚ anyone‚ anybody‚ either‚ neither‚ no‚ nobody‚ some‚ someone). Many of the indefinite pronouns can function as determiners. Examples: * "You can fool some of the people all of the time‚ and all of the people some of the time‚ but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. * No one wants to hear about my sciatica." Rules Using Indefinite Pronouns Indefinite pronouns are words which replace nouns without specifying which noun
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in the 16th and 17th Centuries) He could be the leader of our family that we would raise together. (France in the 16th and 17th Centuries) BAM! An amazing and ingenious idea just hit me. We could fool the whole town by disguising him as a “noble” foreigner and put him in nice clothes. This plan is fool proof and no one would ever figure out the secret. Now my family will not be disgraced by my decision to marry this man since they will believe he is noble. I‚ a forever fruitful French female‚ fancies
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tempt into ridiculous behaviour. This point is made most obviously by the instant antipathy between Feste‚ the fool‚ and Malvolio. Malvolio sees no point in having a Fool around‚ especially one who seems as old and tired as Feste‚ in whose jokes Malvolio finds no amusement. It’s important to note that the major motivation for the trick on Malvolio is the insult he makes to the Fool when we first meet them‚ together with his total dislike for any sort of fun. Malvolio‚ in other words‚ is a kill-joy
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according to Document E. In lotteries‚ power might possibly fall into the hands of people that are careless or contain deep hatred about their state. Power in the hands of a fool could cause the bankruptcy an empire or citizen riots‚ or even worse. Power in the hands of a fool could cause the rioting of citizens. Power in the hands of a fool could cause the loss of an empire .Whether Athens gave power to the right people is a question for another day‚ whereas the Romans gave power to the appropriate
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“Aleppo‚” and a “malignant and a turbaned Turk” remind us of Othello’s long speech in Act I‚ scene iii‚ lines127–168‚ and of the tales of adventure and war with which he wooed Desdemona. No longer inarticulate with grief as he was when he cried‚ “O fool! fool! fool!‚” Othello seems to have calmed himself and regained his dignity and‚ consequently‚ our respect (V.ii.332). He reminds us once again of his martial prowess‚ the quality that made him famous in Venice. At the same time‚
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knowing the Buchanon’s very well‚ Miss Baker sheds light on the affair‚ saying‚ “’You mean to say you don’t know?’ said Miss Baker‚ honestly surprised. ‘I thought everybody knew’” (Fitzgerald 15) It becomes evident by her reaction that Daisy is no fool‚ either‚ after the telephone rings in the middle of the dinner party‚ and it is Tom’s mistress on the other end. “Tom frowned‚ pushed back his chair‚ and without a word went inside. As if his absence quickened something within her‚ Daisy leaned forward
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and so grow to a point” (1.2.6-7). Bottom tells Quince to tell him what the play is about‚ then read the names of the actors‚ and then shut up. Here‚ he is shown being very straight forth. Bottom’s persona is attributed by acting like an Ass‚ or a fool‚ in most of his lines in the play. At the same time‚ however‚ through his role as the Ass‚ he acts as a sort of symbolic center-piece that ties all of the action in the play together. By taking on this characteristic‚ the audience marvels in laughter
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quickly reaches the climax‚ exposing the internal conflict. The officer exclaims‚ “but even then I was not thinking particularly of my own skin‚ only of the watchful yellow faces behind‚” and continues to describe how he was more afraid of looking like a fool in front of the natives than of the tyrant elephant (Orwell 381). Orwell
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