fatheaded

fatheaded

slang Stupid. Please don't get caught up in Will's latest fatheaded scheme—they never work out.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fatheaded

mod. stupid. Let’s not come up with another fatheaded plan. This one has to make sense.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • pillow-biter
  • it's dogged that does it
References in periodicals archive
ASNE conclaves are so much different now than years ago when we editors were slightly more fatheaded and the success of a convention rested upon how many Washington potentates the editors lured into their banquet hall.
Well, I suppose we had the honor of entertaining, in this bar parlor yesterday, about the biggest, loudest, and most fatheaded fanatic in the modern world.
I do not blame the press officer at all -just the crackpot climate in which sensible people feel increasingly unable to do the valuable job of publicising their productions without looking over their shoulder and being afraid of stepping on somebody's fatheaded susceptibilities.
By the way, don't blame your favourite newspaper for its apparent inability to separate its words: Mr Ayckbourn has for some reason been beguiled by the same fatheaded fad as the developers who named Brindleyplace and BullRing.
What a pity their fatheaded idealism doesn't run to throwing themselves in front of the bulldozers busily ripping Borneo apart, or failing that, there is 11,600,000 square miles of stinking slum called Africa that is crying out for interfering busybodies .