That's the whole thing about being a kook,I mean, being willing to be a beginner, make a fool out of oneself once in a while."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

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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