pea-brain

pea-brain

n
informal a foolish or unintelligent person
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The days of the Raj are long gone and we are not obliged to tolerate swindlers, thugs and immoral pea-brain leaders planted to govern.
In a script stuffed with profane verbal pyrotechnics and flagrant political incorrectness, McDonagh gets major comic mileage out of pea-brain Marilyn's umbrage over the offensive terminology Carmichael employs while threatening their lives.
When it comes to hunting, I love it, and I will not have a pea-brain telling me, with his nose in the air, what I can or can't hunt with.
"Theirs is a rapidly dying breed, having succumbed to stubbornly self-inflicted wounds of poorly camouflaged liberal bias--all this, lending credence within conservative circles to the popular 'pea-brain' hypothesis."
What grand model of cosmology would this pea-brain perceive, conceive, theorize?
Paging through the poems and sayings I've painstakingly copied over the years hoping to somehow inscribe them in my poor conditioned pea-brain -- I realize how long I've known I needed to lighten up.
Almost inevitably, those who insist on voicing their ill-considered opinions via social media had a field day, greeting the 79 with a sneering hysteria, each pea-brain attempting to out-do the latter, upping the anti-Woods ante in their efforts to write the man off.
Staying with this week's telly, try the following multiple choice question that's even easier than the pea-brain ones on GMTV: Karen Carpenter was a famous what?
This begs the obvious question: Why can't the same logician who approved that piece of pie-eyed planning apply his or her pea-brain to solving the post office's problem?
Every bit of me wanted to grab him and explain to his hatred-filled pea-brain that even if he held those abhorrent views, I didn't want to hear them.
How would we expect this pea-brain to respect anybody else's property when any SELF respect is obvious by its absence?
THE UKIP MEP who spoke of this country giving aid to "bongo-bongo land" has made all opponents of wasteful foreign aid look like cold-hearted, pea-brain bigots.
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