tomfool

I've never seen you or your insolent tomfool bills.

What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.

On no account is she to be allowed to slip out by herself and go off again doing some more tomfool detective work.'

"Now there's a tomfool notion."

"I'll stop all night in your tomfool wood and up your tomfool trees," he said.

He said, "You can lie till you drop, Leimmokheir, but you're a tomfool to try.

"No, no, Major, don't play tomfool," and Jeekie grabbed him by the arm and dragged him away.

"What kind of justice do you call this, to blame me for some words that a tomfool of a madcap lass has written down upon a piece of paper?

Also, you needn't be jealous, old chap, for, although I did try to cut in when you were doing the pious over that tomfool oath of yours and the rest of it, it wasn't the slightest use.

So I mean to pass that tomfool examination and to cram down a lot of stuff in order to do so, which is of no more use to me than though I had swallowed so much brown paper.

Gerry Adams, the I.R.A.'s political leader, said that Mr. Major had been a "tomfool" to propose the referendum, which he characterized as a "con trick," attempting to dictate he means of public approval of settlement as a precondition for peace talks.