| Sentence | 1936 Dec. 21, "Foreign News: Gloucester," Time (retrieved 2 July 2015): This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. . . . Gloucester's young Scottish Duchess put him up to telling the King-Emperor after Mrs. Simpson's departure (TIME, Dec. 14), "You are a damn fool if you run after her now!" For his pains, Gloucester got slapped. |
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| Definition | ( idiomatic ) To https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic encourage or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encourage trick (someone) to perform an action which is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick foolish or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foolish wrong .https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrong |
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