nobody's fool
Meaning: A sensible person who is not easily tricked.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “Grandma may be ninety, but she's nobody's fool.”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: A plain statement that no one can make a fool of this person. The phrase is found from the 19th century.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: Pas folle, la guêpe ! — literally: Not mad, the wasp!
More idioms — Daily Life
- swing the lead — To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill.
- no sweat — No problem; that's easy.
- dumb as a box of rocks — Very stupid.
- without a penny to one's name — With no money at all.
- feed someone a line — To tell someone something untrue to deceive them.
- a smart aleck — An annoying person who shows off how clever they are.
More English idioms
- you could have knocked me down with a feather — I was extremely surprised.
- get on someone's nerves — To annoy someone.
- a fat lot of good that does me — That is of no use to me at all.
- knock someone's socks off — To impress or amaze someone greatly.
- what have you been smoking? — Said to someone whose idea sounds crazy.
- let things ride — To let a situation continue without interfering.
From our tongue twisters
- Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter's bitter. — A 'b / t / tt' plosive drill that bounces between Betty, butter, and bitter.
- She sells seashells by the seashore. — The definitive 's' versus 'sh' alternation — the tongue has to switch place of articulati…
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. — A relentless 'p' plosive drill; a peck is an old dry measure of about nine litres.