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 2007

"Somebody thinks this is April-fool Day, I guess."

Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

"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 Laura Lee Hope

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

The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean Roy Rockwood

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

Jerry's Charge Account Hazel Hutchins Wilson 1945

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

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

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

Marjorie at Seacote Carolyn Wells 1902

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

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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 Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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.

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