play the fool
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"I am pleading with you. Let us not take this hurricane lightly. This is not the time to play the fool."
From Fox News ● Jul. 2, 2021
But unlike those people, she also seems happy to play the fool herself when it suits her aims.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2020
The sixth form were putting it on because they were studying it for A Level - and they brought me in to play the fool.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017
“Do you think it’s wise to play the fool? Take a look around you, it’s easy not to see / Building walls between us doesn’t fix a thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2017
But after a while he became convinced that if he was ever going to do anything in Milagro besides vegetate and play the fool, he needed mobility.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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