foolhardy
A person who is foolhardyA person who is foolhardy.
» Tom is foolhardy, isn't he?
Tom ist tollkühn, nicht wahr?
Значение
значений: 1A person who is foolhardy.
Примеры
предложений: 7Tom is foolhardy, isn't he?
deTom ist tollkühn, nicht wahr?
Tom is foolhardy.
deTom ist tollkühn.
You need to be brave but not foolhardy.
Надо быть смелым, но не безрассудным.
The young man is often foolhardy.
You are making a foolhardy judgment about me.
Происхождение
From Middle English folehardy, foolhardi, folherdi, from Old French fol hardi (“foolishlyFrom Middle English folehardy, foolhardi, folherdi, from Old French fol hardi (“foolishly bold”), from Old French fol (“foolish, silly; insane, mad”) (from Latin follis (“bellows; purse, sack; inflated ball; belly, paunch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + Old French hardi (“durable, hardy, tough”) (past tense of hardir (“to harden”), from the unattested Frankish *hartjan, from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard; brave”)), equivalent to fool + hardy. Compare fool-bold, fool-large, etc.
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