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nobody's fool

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  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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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

Your category is full of some formidable characters – the Dowager Countess on “Downton Abbey” and Cersei Lannister on “Game of Thrones” – in addition to Diane Lockhart, who is also nobody's fool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2014

Then he would prove to the whole world he was nobody’s fool.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

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