Tomfoolery Phrases

Phrases

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Act the fool
• Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks movie)
• April fool
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Beyond a joke
• Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
• Born On The Fourth Of July (Tom Cruise movie)
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• By way of a joke
• Crazy fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Tom Robbins book)
• Fool around
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Fool's errand
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Fool's paradise
• Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks movie)
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
• I pity the fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Inside joke
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It's no joke
• Joke around
• Make a complete fool of yourself
• Make a fool of yourself
• Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise movie and television series title)
• More fool you

• No joke
• Nobody's fool
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Peeping Tom
• Play the fool
• Played for a fool
• Polar Express (Tom Hanks movie)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Shut up, fool. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Sick joke
• Sleepless In Seattle (Tom Hanks movie)
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson song)
• The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
• The Clown Prince (Nickname of Paul Gascoigne)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)
• The Da Vinci Code (Tom Hanks movie)
• The Fool On The Hill (The Beatles song)
• The Golden Boy (Nickname of Tom Brady)
• The Peeper (Nickname of Cliff Murdock (Tom Poston))
• The Tears of a Clown
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• The joke's over
• There's no fool like an old fool
• Tom Dick and Harry
• Tom Terrific (Nickname of Tom Seaver)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tom foolery
• Tommy America (Nickname of Tom Brady)
• Toy Story (Tom Hanks movie)
• Uncle Tom Cobley and all
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)