Daft Phrases

Phrases

• As daft as a brush
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• As thick as two short planks
• Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
• Barmy army
• Brain dead
• Dead from the neck up
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
• George Raft (Cockney rhyming slang for daft)
• Get stupid
• Hare brained
• Hit by the stupid stick
• I'm with stupid

• It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
• Keep it simple stupid
• Laugh yourself silly
• Lost the plot
• Lost your marbles
• Makes sensible buying simple (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• 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
• Out to lunch
• Pig ignorant
• Play silly buggers

• Scared silly
• Shit for brains
• Silly Billy
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Putty
• Silly Symphony
• Silly ass
• Silly bint
• Silly money
• Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids (Trix chocolate advertising slogan)
• Silly sausage
• Silly season

• Soft in the head
• Somethin' Stupid (Frank Sinatra song)
• Stupid is as stupid does
• Terminally stupid
• 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)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• 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)
• Waste of space
• You don't have to be silly to drink TK, but it helps! (TK minerals advertising slogan)
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)