Dumb Phrases

Phrases

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Act the fool
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• April fool
• As deaf as a adder
• As deaf as a post
• As dull as ditchwater
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• As thick as two short planks
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Brain dead
• Bubble brained
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Crazy fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dead from the neck up
• Dialogue of the deaf
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
• Dumb And Dumber (Jim Carrey movie)
• Dumb bunny
• Dumb cluck
• Dumb dora
• Dumbing down
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fool around
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Fool's errand
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Fool's paradise
• Get stupid
• Half a bubble off plumb
• Hare brained
• Hit by the stupid stick
• I pity the fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• I'm with stupid
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• Idiot board
• Idiot box
• Idiot proof
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
• Joe Six Pack

• Keep it simple stupid
• Keep mum, she's not so dumb (WWII slogan)
• Lost the plot
• Lost your marbles
• Low brow
• Make a complete fool of yourself
• Make a fool of yourself
• More fool you
• Mouth breather
• Mute witness
• Mutt and Jeff (Cockney rhyming slang for deaf)
• Never a dull moment
• No-brainer
• Nobody's fool
• Not all there
• Not dealing from a full deck
• Not playing with a full deck
• Not the full shilling
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Only half there
• Our dumb chums
• Out to lunch
• Pig ignorant
• Play the fool
• Played for a fool
• Pond scum
• Shit for brains
• Shut up, fool. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Slack-jawed yokel
• Soft in the head
• Somethin' Stupid (Frank Sinatra song)
• Stupid is as stupid does
• Terminally stupid
• The Fool On The Hill (The Beatles song)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• There's no fool like an old fool
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Tone deaf
• Two bricks short of a load
• Two sandwiches short of a picnic
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Village idiot
• Waste of space
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)