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A list of phrases related to the word "dumb"...
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A
deaf
husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
A
fool
and his money are soon parted
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A man who is his own lawyer has a
fool
for a client
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Act the
fool
All work and no play makes Jack a
dull
boy
April
fool
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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
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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 )