Idiom
flannelled fool
Meaning
A cricketer (from the white flannel trousers they traditionally wear).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was a flannelled fool for the local club.”
“My grandfather was a flannelled fool in his youth, playing every weekend for the village team.”
“In the sepia photographs of his youth, the old man appeared as a proud flannelled fool, bat in hand, standing on the village green where he had once dreamed of glory.”
Examples
simple
“He was a flannelled fool for the local club.”
contextual
“My grandfather was a flannelled fool in his youth, playing every weekend for the village team.”
complex
“In the sepia photographs of his youth, the old man appeared as a proud flannelled fool, bat in hand, standing on the village green where he had once dreamed of glory.”
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