"Foil" is a word in ENGLISH
To defile; to soil.
The track or trail of an animal.
To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to
baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat;
frustration; miscarriage.
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil;
gold foil.
To tread under foot; to trample.
The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded
or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is
called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number
of arcs of which it is composed.
A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in
the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in
chase.
A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a
looking-glass, to cause reflection.
A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and
afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; --
employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior
stones.
Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn
or set off another thing to advantage.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
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