half-wit

Related to half-wit: idiocies

half-wit

An insulting term for person who is not very smart. Some half-wit decided to leave sugar out on the counter, and now our kitchen is infested with ants.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • it's a (type of person) thing
  • it's a... thing
  • will not stand for (something)
  • Attic wit
  • attic
  • Attic salt
  • it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
  • nice play, Shakespeare
  • Nice play, Shakespeare!
  • Shakespeare
References in periodicals archive
Finally, we have a world leader with charisma, drive, and the ability to articulate a message to any gathering without sounding like a half-wit!
He described Science as someone who 'just runs around all day like a half-wit making no sense.
ROT...shrugging half-wit Emma Jones on the big Royal debate - the "voice of yoof" couldn't hold her own against Bob The Builder...
Walsall against Wolves was hardly a riveting encounter - an ejected Wolves fan and a shirtless half-wit prancing about the Floors-2-Go stand were the highlights - but the punters were charged pounds 12.
Young Fiona, you see, gets chased a lot by a hulking, slobbering half-wit freak called Debilitas, who seems to want to love her and hug her and shake her like a dolly until she bleedsFiona's other task, apart from not getting Debilitated, is to piece together why she's in the mansion and what it has to do with her family and a half-remembered car crash.
Without Rooney, United (4-5 Totalbet) must rely on half-fit Ruud van Nistelrooy or half-wit Alan Smith as their lone front man.
And no-one in any political party - not even that half-wit Hague - could deny that the Prime Minister is absolutely right to do so.
"It's very disturbing and I don't believe for a second it has come from a half-wit lowlife.
Once again, the FIFA half-wit has engaged his tongue before his brain is even out of reverse.
But they made it just 50 yards before one half-wit smacked into a tree trunk and passed out.
Instead of throwing money at any half-wit with half an idea, we should be pumping more cash into our infrastructure - our roads, our water supply and our communications system.
But I suppose one half-wit in the entire Scottish/Italian community isn't such a bad average.
But these half-wit 'patriots' who can't imagine the England team being managed by a foreigner still happily sing the national anthem about another manager - 'God Save our part-German Queen'.
This is a time when numerous par-ents would have been breathing a sigh of relief after finally managing to get their over-excited youngsters to sleep, and this half-wit certainly takes the gold medal as the most anti-social, thoughtless imbecile of the year.
The Big Number change has been the biggest disaster since some half-wit generals at the Somme sent a generation over the top in the expectation they would all be in Berlin and eating hamburgers by lunch-time next Thursday (so long as they didn't have to phone their order in).