If you pretend to know what you don't know, you'll only make a fool of yourself.

不懂装懂就会闹笑话。

《新英汉大辞典》

Don't make a fool of yourself anymore.

你不要故意闹笑话了。

youdao

Make a fool of yourself, don't understand asked, you will learn more.

把自我当傻瓜，不懂就问，你会学的更多。

youdao

I am told that it plays on a slang phrase then current, "to make a gazebo of yourself," meaning"to make a spectacle of yourself and a fool of yourself, publicly."

有人告诉我这是当时的说法,建筑楼台意思是“,当众出丑,大庭广众下出洋相“

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You can fail to engage the crowd, you can make a fool of yourself, you can attempt too little or too much and miss the mark.

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There are, you know, in a normal political society, you can make forecasts and predictions and, you know, go on Sunday morning shows and make a fool of yourself, but sometimes you can be right because people talk and debate, and there's real politics.

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Nintendo's already dipped its toes into motion-sensing handheld gaming with the gyro-equipped WarioWare: Twisted for the Game Boy Advance, but it looks like the company looks has even grander plans to let you make a fool of yourself in public, at least if a recent patent application is any indication.

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