cap and bells
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noun
a fool's cap hung with bells.
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Origin of cap and bells
First recorded in 1880–85
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Examples from the Web for cap and bells
Historical Examples of cap and bells
I wonder where we could have him measured for a cap-and-bells.
Modern FlirtationsCatherine Sinclair
Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells for a fool.
Every man I have met out here has the amazing guts to wear his crown of thorns as though it were a cap-and-bells.
Carry OnConingsby Dawson
cap and bells
noun
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