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nobody's fool

Idioms  
  1. A person who cannot be duped or taken advantage of, as in You can't put anything over on Ryan—he's nobody's fool. [Early 1900s]


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They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of the stick.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2023

Leytner includes scenes of Margarete repeatedly rejecting the romantic attentions of her employer that make her likeable and show her to be nobody's fool.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2020

France seems to be nobody’s fool no longer.

From Seattle Times Feb. 20, 2020

But even in the early 1950s she was nobody’s fool, and her characters had an unusual resilience, cockiness and competence.

From New York Times May 13, 2019

Behind that laid-back attitude and happy face, Arnold was nobody’s fool.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

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