one brick short of a full load

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one brick short of a full load

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  1. not comparable, slang Not mentally sound; insane. I feel fine today, but that gentleman conversing with the house plant there may be one brick short of a full load.
  2. idiomatic, not comparable Stupid. You have to be one brick short of a full load to think that '7' is a letter in the alphabet.

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@misc{one_brick_short_of_a_full_load_2026,
  title = {one brick short of a full load},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/one%20brick%20short%20of%20a%20full%20load},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}