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bricks shy of a load
Idioms and Phrases
Mentally impaired, either unintelligent or merely eccentric. For example, He may be handsome but he's not too brightâa few bricks shy of a load . This term, transferring a light load to lightweight mental capacity, is usually preceded by either a few or a specific number such as two . [ Slang ; 1960s]Example Sentences
The Ukranian must think all British boxers are a few bricks shy of a load.
âAbout Three Bricks Shy of a Loadâ â later updated in an edition titled âAbout Three Bricks Shy ... And the Load Filled Up,â after the Steelers had begun winning Super Bowls â is his best book, and the sort of sports book weâre unlikely to see again.
The biggest news about football writing this fall is that itâs the 40th anniversary of âAbout Three Bricks Shy of a Load,â Mr. Blountâs book about the Steelers.
That includes ex-Atlantan Blount, the sportswriter and humorist whose 1974 About Three Bricks Shy of a Load did for the Pittsburgh Steelers roughly what Sherman did for the South.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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