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[merlot]

I��m working on a little writing piece and was trying to remember euphemisms for ��not so smart.��

Such as:

��The light��s on but no one��s home��

��The elevator doesn��t go to the top floor��

��Not the sharpest knife in the drawer��

��A couple of buds short of an ounce��

more?

[Confused Canadian]

A quick Google search of "a few short of" gave me this...

http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+20

Few sandwiches short of a picnic, A

and related cliches:

Couldn't find his way out of a paper bag
Doesn't have both oars in the water
Dumb as a post
Dumb as a stump
Dumber than a bag of hammers
Dumber than a box of rocks
Few bricks shy, A
Few fries short of a happy meal, A
Few sandwiches short of a picnic, A
Half a bubble off, A
His/Her elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor
Just fell off the turnip truck
Lights are on but there's nobody home, The
Not playing with a full deck
Not the brightest bulb (in the box / on the tree / in the chandelier)
Not the brightest crayon in the box
Not the sharpest crayon in the box
Not the sharpest knife in the cabinet
Not the sharpest pencil in the box
One taco short of a combination plate
Sharp as a marble
Thick as a brick
Thick as a ditch, A
Wheel is turning but the hamster is dead, The

I'm sure you could find a few more at that site if you tried...


Confused Canadian

[Clutch Cargo]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Dumber than a stack of sticks
Hamster's home, but the wheel is broken
Only knitting with one needle
Two brain cells, one's lost and the other's out looking for him

Some of these tend to get used for being stupid or being a little crazy. Queen's "I'm going slightly mad" is almost a list in itself!

Ken:>

[Xerxes]

Merlot, your signature, it's uncanny, but that's something that some of us friends at college used to say. I was surprised that that was so similar so I did a google search of it, just in case some of us picked it up from somewhere else and that it was not an original saying.

If you recognize, "there is a vas deferens between me and a gametophyte" (it came up in conversation that we all had), we need to talk and mull over old times, dude. Give me a private message, if you recognize the other saying. There was another one: "There are only two things in this world that smell like tuna; one of them is tuna." But I think that the person who said that got it from somewhere else. The gametophyte was spontaneous, so no one could have copied that from some other place.

Otherwise, it is a clever saying and I bow in your general direction for your wit!

[Bulsajo]

Grotto-esque.

[joe_doufu]

Couldn't pour water out of the boot, if there were instructions written under the heel.

... if only your IQ was bigger than your shoe size.

[Privateer]

Thick as two short planks.
Couldn't find his arse with both hands.
Not playing with a full deck.

etc etc

[TJ]

[BigBuds]

A six-pack short of a case

[philthy]

From the shallow end of the gene pool.

OR

They're so dumb they time share one brain cell.

[billybrobby]

wheel is spinning but the hamster's dead

[EFLtrainer]

rides the short bus

"special"

Dumb as a post/log/etc.

brain dead

lost

[Rteacher]

"Intellectually challenged" ... I think that many of the metaphoric expressions listed are not truly euphemistic because they are just as offensive as the original expression...

[jajdude]

Sharp as a jajdude.

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It's another one of those things where everyone will laugh. Like the one where most people agree "the masses are asses" but the masses agree, and exclude themselves? Seems weird. Why not admit I am a dumbass? I know I am.

I wear a hockey helmet but cannot skate.
I have to park in the retarded zone.
My face was shot off and I got hit by a drunk driver.
I was burned in a fire.

And these are the good things....