not playing with a full deck
- not playing with a full deck
a few bricks short of a load & a few cards shy of a full deck & a few cards short of a deck & not playing with a full deck & two bricks shy of a load
Fig. lacking in intellectual ability. (Many other variants.) •
Tom: Joe thinks he can build a car out of old milk jugs. Mary: I think Joe's a few bricks short of a load.
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Ever since she fell and hit her head, Jane's been a few bricks short of a load, if you know what I'm saying.
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Bob's nice, but he's not playing with a full deck.
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You twit! You're two bricks shy of a load.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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not playing with a full deck — not rational, not all there People say he s not stable that he s not playing with a full deck … English idioms
not playing with a full deck — I informal mentally deficient II see deck * * * not playing with a full deck see ↑deck, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑full … Useful english dictionary
(not) playing with a full deck (of cards) — Someone who is not playing with a full deck (of cards) lacks intelligence or does not have full mental abilities. Old Mrs.Whitehead was not playing with a full deck when she bought that fancy lawnmower! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
not playing with a full deck — Meaning Stupid. Origin Lacking the required intelligence, as a card game being played with a card missing … Meaning and origin of phrases
not playing with a full deck — (Slang) mentally incompetent or unstable; insane … English contemporary dictionary
play with a full deck — in. to operate as if one were mentally sound. (Usually in the negative. One cannot play cards with a partial deck.) □ That guy’s not playing with a full deck. □ Look sharp, you dummies! Pretend you are playing with a full deck … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
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