have enough sense to pound salt
have enough sense to pound salt
To have a basic level of competence, intelligence, or common sense. Used most often in the negative to imply that someone lacks even that. A variant of the more common expression "have enough sense to pound sand." I lost my faith in the political process when I realized that the people getting voted into Washington don't have enough sense to pound salt. That boy doesn't have sense enough to pound salt. What makes you think he'll be able to fix your computer?
See also: enough, have, pound, salt, sense
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- take the Michael (out of someone or something)
- take the mike (out of someone or something)
- champ down on (someone or something)
- a force to reckon with
- a watched kettle never boils
- be (right) down (one's) alley
- nicca
- nikka
- if it isn't broke, don't fix it
- if it isn't broken, don't fix it