If we act like harmless fools, they will forget about us.
Were long notes on Prof, and I was embarrassed as they added up to "harmless old fool."
He knows so little of the evil what lurks in men's hearts that those in power may well take him to be a harmless fool.
He'd chosen the particular passage because it would doubtless identify the reader to any international customs authority as a harmless fool.
To the outside world, we were harmless fools; ignore us, and maybe we'd go away.
Manuel himself only escaped a similar fate largely because John II regarded him as a harmless fool.
As long as I've got a gun on you you're a harmless fool.
How did this harmless fool get himself thrown into jail?
What spiteful fate inspired him, so near his end, with this kindly impulse towards a harmless fool?