thick as a brick
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thick as a brick
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Very stupid; slow to learn or understand.
So you ride yourselves over the fields
And you make all your animal deals
And your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick.
Similar: dumb as an ox, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian
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| 中文 | 愚不可及 yúbùkějí |
|---|---|
| Português | burro como uma porta |
| Français | bête à manger du foin, bête comme ses pieds, con comme un balai, con comme la lune, con comme une chaise, con comme un manche |
| Deutsch | dumm wie Bohnenstroh, dumm wie Brot |
| Română | prost ca noaptea |
| Русский | тупо́й, как про́бка tupój, kak próbka, туп как сиби́рский ва́ленок tup kak sibírskij válenok |
| עברית | טיפש כמו נעל |
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