nobody's fool
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Christine was the butt of jokes, but she was nobody’s fool.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2022
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
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
Bobby Moch—as everyone concerned would eventually learn—was nobody’s fool.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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