I’ve been collecting snappy colloquialisms for over thirty years now. Some are funny, some downright vulgar or insulting. Some you’ll probably remember from your childhood, very common in our culture and language. Some people have a knack for making them up on the spot and dead-on appropriate to the situation at hand. These always catch me off guard, and I have to scramble to write them down before I forget. I’ll start posting some of them on a semi-irregular schedule. Here are several relating to intelligence -
- She’s such an airhead; if you blew in her ear, she’d thank you for the refill.
- If brains were dynamite, he wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose.
- He’s about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.
- He’s about as bright as a small appliance bulb.
- He’s dumber than catshit.
- About as smart as a box of hair.
- She couldn’t teach clay to dry in the sun.
- He ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
- He’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
- He’s kind of a dimbulb.
- He’s too dumb to pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
- She wouldn’t know a fancy dress from a sassafras patch.
gilmark
