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Fool away   /ful əwˈeɪ/   Listen
verb
Fool  v. t.  
1.
To infatuate; to make foolish. "For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit."
2.
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. "You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent."
To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.





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"Fool away" Quotes from Famous Books



... old man, and peppered away at him, and he peppered away at them. Him and his horse both went home pretty leaky and crippled, but the Grangerfords had to be FETCHED home—and one of 'em was dead, and another died the next day. No, sir; if a body's out hunting for cowards he don't want to fool away any time amongst them Shepherdsons, becuz they don't breed any of ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... see you fool away your money, only I'm not going to have you carry loaded guns near me. If they are to be for show let them be for show. There, ...
— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn
... prima donna and backer in one. We think that she is some rich young woman who wishes to exploit her voice. There's a lot of them in the world. I wish I knew her. I am dying of curiosity. The manager is not a man to fool away his time. She doubtless can act and sing. Little has been said about the venture in the papers, and I'm glad. We may prove a perfect fizzle, and the less said the better. As we can't walk back, I must learn to swim.... ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... master's carriage go by, in which there is a five hundred dollar dog with a hundred dollar blanket on, and a collar set with diamonds, lolling on satin cushions, and the girl is fined ten cents for looking out of, the window, you don't want to fool away any time trying to get us to go to a heaven where such heartless employers ...
— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck


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