nobody's fool
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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
Behind that laid-back attitude and happy face, Arnold was nobody’s fool.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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