nobody's fool
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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
‘You are not very well educated but you are really nobody’s fool, I can see that.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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