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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cap of Fools

(The). The chief or foremost fool; one that exceeds all others in folly.

“Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.”

Shakespeare: Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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