DON'T BE FOOLED - The English addict explains - Lesson 1

There are many situations where a person might be tricked or deceived in some way.

To deceive is to mislead or tell an untruth as a way of gaining something.

‘Deceive’ is the action of misleading.

The noun form is 'deception'.

You deceive someone. That action is deception.

The word fool can be used as both a verb and a noun.

You can fool someone, which means to deceive or trick a person into doing or believing something.

As a noun, the person being tricked is the fool.

Then we have the word ‘foolish’, which is the appearance of being fooled.

A foolish person might be someone who is easily tricked or deceived.

A fool can also be someone who behaves in a silly, immature way.

A person might play the fool if they are pretending to be stupid.

In English, we also have an interesting phrase... ‘A fool and their money are easily parted’.

This phrase refers to the action of convincing someone to buy an item that they don't actually need.

It would be fair to say that we all behave in a foolish way from time to time,

To fool and be fooled.

They say that there is a fool born every minute.

Sometimes you must be careful not to be fooled by someone or something.

Don't believe everything you are told and don't trust everything

because sometimes it is a good idea to check

or make inquiries before agreeing with something.

To ‘agree with’ is to accept an opinion.

If you 'agree to something’, that means you have accepted some sort of agreement that cannot be reversed.

Sometimes being foolish is an expected part of existence.

Quite often we have to learn those harsh life lessons by being fooled.

Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice...

Shame on me.