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Simple Simon
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English
Etymology
From the nursery rhyme of the same name.
Noun
Simple Simon
A fool, or gullible person.
en 2003 Margaret Sanger; Michael W. Perry The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective 188 Now, will your kind of birth control select out specially for suppression the Simple Simons, the Peeping Toms, the Dumme Lisas? Oh, no, indeed.
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