the more fool someone

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

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"—That's nothing, replied my uncle Toby, to what the learned Peireskius did, who walked a matter of five hundred miles, reckoning from Paris to Schevling, and from Schevling to Paris back again, in order to see it,—and nothing else. Some men cannot bear to be out-gone. The more fool Peireskius, replied Dr. Slop."
""You see the Lord an't going to help you; if he had been, he wouldn't have let me get you! This yer religion is all a mess of lying trumpery, Tom. I know all about it. Ye'd better hold to me; I'm somebody, and can do something!" "No, Mas'r," said Tom; "I'll hold on. The Lord may help me, or not help; but I'll hold to him, and believe him to the last!" "The more fool you!" said Legree, spitting scornfully at him, and spurning him with his foot."
"‘I have heard all this before,’ said Mr. Bounderby. ‘She took to drinking, left off working, sold the furniture, pawned the clothes, and played old Gooseberry.’ ‘I were patient wi’ her.’ (’The more fool you, I think,’ said Mr. Bounderby, in confidence to his wine-glass.)"
"You told the people then that there was no God; the more fool you to say it, and they to listen, when you know as well as they do that there is a God, and a good one."

First appeared in writing in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew.

the more fool [someone] (canonical)