Last Updated：2025/11/24

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(informal, idiomatic) Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed. / (informal, idiomatic) Someone who is eccentric, nonconformist, or otherwise peculiar.

音声機能が動作しない場合はこちらをご確認ください

See correct answer

live one

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

live one

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈlaɪv wʌn/

Noun

idiomatic informal

Japanese Meaning

騙されやすい人、犠牲になりやすい人、茶化されやすい対象 / 風変わりな人、変わり者、常識にとらわれない人

What is this buttons?

Don't be a live one and fall for that email scam.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

そのメール詐欺に引っかかってカモにならないでください。

Details

Sense（1）

(informal, idiomatic) Someone who is easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed.

There's green as in greenhorn, meaning inexperienced and gullible. Those with a pitch to sell are going to spot a live one—in this case government with dollars practically falling out of its pockets—coming from miles away.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation