Idiot
101idiot box — Some people consider television to lack educational value and refer to it as the idiot box. He spends all his free time in front of the idiot box …
102idiot savant — (eed YOH sah VANH) [French: learned idiot] In psychiatry, a mentally deficient person with extraordinary skill or ability in a special field, such as musical performance or mathematics. The film stars Tom Hanks as the engaging idiot savant… …
103idiot savant — id•i•ot sa•vant [[t]ˈɪd i ət səˈvɑnt, sæ [/t]] fr. [[t]i dyoʊ saˈvɑ̃[/t]] n. pl. idiot savants, Fr. id•iots sa•vants [[t]i dyoʊ saˈvɑ̃[/t]] psi a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly… …
104idiot box — n. a television set. □ You spend too much time watching the idiot box. □ What’s on the idiot box tonight? …
105idiot card — n. a large card that shows people on television what to say. □ The floor director held up an idiot card so I could read out the telephone number. □ I couldn’t read the number off the idiot card …
106idiot juice — AND idiotic [“idiot d3us AND idi”adik] n. a mixture of ground nutmeg and water. (Prisons.) □ Somehow a bunch of these guys got hold of some idiot juice. □ He drank about a gallon of idiotic to get the kick of one beer …
107idiot light — n. a light (instead of a meter) on a car’s dashboard that indicates the state of various things concerning the operation of the car. □ I don’t want idiot lights. I want meters! □ The idiot light went on, and I knew I was in some sort of trouble …
108idiot oil — n. alcohol. □ She drinks too much of that idiot oil. □ Idiot oil can wreck you as much as smack does …
109idiot pills — n. barbiturates. (Drugs.) □ Lay off those idiot pills, why don’t you? □ She takes idiot pills every night …
110idiot board — noun : a device (as a projection of a script) used to prompt a television speaker and placed out of camera range * * * ˈidiot board 7 [idiot board] noun (informal) a board with words written on it for a television ↑presenter to read, so that the …