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Synonyms

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]

Example Sentences

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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

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

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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