be no fool



be no fool

To be worldly and difficult to trick or deceive. Your teacher is no fool—she'll never believe that your homework blew away on your walk home from school.
See also: fool

be no/nobody's fool

to be intelligent John's no fool. He's never going to believe that excuse.
See also: fool

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Sendoa-Basque
MarttiMAHRT-teeFinnish
Malina (2)mah-LEE-nah (Polish)Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish
Murtada-Arabic
Rajesh-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Tirtzah-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew