April-fool

• “You would not date your letters from a Vicolo, but from a Collegio, and thus it appears you lost the advantage of being made a regular April-fool.”

  New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn

• “April-fool game" to the whole house, so they decided to crawl into bed again and let others do the same.”

  The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore

• “Have you any of those April-fool cigars left?" he whispered.”

  The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean

• “Somebody thinks this is April-fool Day, I guess.”

  Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir

• “You can't April-fool me that easy," she said in a superior-sounding way that irritated Jerry.”

  Jerry's Charge Account

• “It was to be an April-fool -- a great complimentary joke.”

  The Boys' Life of Mark Twain

• “It isn't a wild-goose chase, or an April-fool sort of joke.”

  Marjorie at Seacote

• “In high dudgeon, full of fire and fury, back rushed the knight, sore under the sense of having been made an April-fool of in July; for no one in the place whereto he went, had ever heard of a widow'd Countess of”

  The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper

• “When someone wakes you up with a phone call saying British airports are closed because of the eruption of a volcano in Iceland, don't think it is some kind of belated April-fool joke.”

  arabnews - frontpage

• “Please tell me that you're professional sports writer playing an April-fool prank.”

  Yahoo! Sports

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