couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel
couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel
(Someone) is utterly incompetent or stupid; (someone) can't even manage or carry out the simplest of tasks. A: "Did you hear that Zack took the train home last night and left his car in the parking garage at work?" B: "I'm not surprised. That dummy couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!" The leaders of this country couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. What makes you think they can overhaul the entire tax code?
See also: boot, heel, if, instruction, of, on, out, pour, water
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
- instruction
- organize
- pub
- raffle
- chook
- couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
- couldn't organise a chook raffle
- couldn't organise a chook raffle at a poultry farm
- couldn't organise a chook raffle in a (country) pub