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the comfortable feeling of being right just before you find out otherwise.
means The quality of acting without good sense or judgment, or a particular silly or unwise act.
from From 'fool,' which arrived in English from Old French 'fol' (madman, jester), itself from Latin 'follis' — a bellows or windbag, later slang for an empty-headed person. So buried in the word is the image of a head full of nothing but air. English added the homely suffix '-ish' (having the nature of) and '-ness' (the state of being), stacking ordinary parts onto an old insult to name the whole condition.
- medieval license
- court jesters mocked kings and kept their heads
- holy fools
- some saints faked madness to dodge praise
- april origins
- fooling pranksters dates back to 1500s France
- tarot card
- the Fool is number zero, infinite potential
the great emu war — australian military deployed 20,000 rounds of ammunition against emus in 1932, failed to cull the birds
the maginot line — france built an expensive defensive wall along the german border in 1930, which nazis simply bypassed in 1940