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the only person at court allowed to call the king an idiot
means A person who lacks good sense or judgment, or who is easily deceived — and, in older use, a professional jester kept for entertainment.
from From Old French 'fol,' meaning a madman or jester, which came from Latin 'follis' — a bellows or inflated leather bag. The leap from 'windbag' to 'fool' is wonderfully apt: the empty-headed person, all puff and no substance. The same root quietly survives in 'follicle,' another little sac of air.
- tarot rank
- numbered zero, both nobody and everybody
- job security
- truth-telling licensed by the crown
- shakespeare
- his fools are the smartest in the room
- etymology
- from Latin follis, meaning windbag
- april first
- a whole holiday built on gullibility
king lear — shakespeare's tragic fool character who speaks truth through madness in the 1606 play
yorick — hamlet's jester in shakespeare's play, whose skull hamlet holds in the graveyard scene
april fools day — annual prank tradition celebrated on april 1st across many western countries