fool trick

"Well, don't try the fool trick your side-partner did today," said Mr. Robey, smiling.

It was certainly humiliating to have done what he felt Hugh might justly call a fool trick.

Sence I did that fool trick o cuttin my hand with the axe a couple-three days ago, I caint set finger to trigger.

It would have been a fool trick if I had lost the ship by it.

"Up to some fool trick or other, no doubt," said Fisher from the smoking-room sofa.