fool's errand

What they found was that most people preferred to work with the lovable fool rather than the competent jerk.

“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.

“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.

In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.

“The thing [North Korean government] want[s] the most is the non-release of this film,” Schiff said.

The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds.

The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.

Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.

Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.

I am not fool enough to put my precious Naps in jeopardy, just when I am so deucedly in want of them, too.