Mutton-headed galoots
Arthur Ransome's characters have some out of date but still appealing ways to describe their own, or others', stupidity. I...
As dumb as putty
Good we now have another way to tell someone they're dumb - please feel free to revive this fine phrasing...
Parenting, then and now
This crisp and even cavalier telegram has a distant father allowing his four children to sail to an island in...
Global folly, global range
One of the pitfalls of globalization is the greater range for damaging stupidity which might formerly have been more easily...
Leadership … Daoist style
As you know, a good children’s book has much to teach grown ups and often far more entertainingly than any...
Lummocks / lummox
Again, this was in a 1930s English classic, though the dictionary says it's American, so perhaps it's still in use. “He’ll...
An aristocratic air-head
What great company the Count must have been! A simile for an empty mind only occasionally polluted by the presence...
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