pea-brained

pea-brained

Particularly stupid, foolish, or narrow-minded. The town hall meeting was hijacked by a few pea-brained morons trying to protest the new highway development. Don't let Tom's comments get you down—he's just a pea-brained jerk who puts other people down to make himself feel smart.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pighead
  • pigheaded
  • birdbrained
  • bird-brained
  • see no further than the end of one’s nose
  • doofus
  • boiling mad
  • McFly
  • nick ninny
References in periodicals archive
Look, as much as I'd love to awn over my slobbering, pea-brained counterpart, let me say that cats can make you happy, too.
The Buzz on Facebook
SOME pea-brained pundits still like to insist that darts is a game, not a sport, scornfully putting it on a par with dominoes and cribbage.
Why awesome arrers is the best sport of all; STEVE PALMER ON SUNDAY
With activist zeal, she wrote compassionately on behalf of the pea-brained stegosaurus, the doomed dodo, and common roadkill.
Fox Girl
It's easy to laugh at this piece of pea-brained fundamentalism.
And here's to you, Mrs Robinson ..
A flash of lightning strikes a pea-brained, turnip-headed Scarecrow - and he comes to life.
Theatrical thrills in the open air; Preview The Scarecrow and His Servant Abergavenny Castle
The actions of such pea-brained morons suggests it might be true.
Big Brother has got our number
I had one of these in April at Sun 'n Fun, when I came to the inescapable conclusion that I'm a dinosaur, a mud-hugging, pea-brained Jurassic throwback.
Feets don't fail me
What a pea-brained thing to suggest that, just because they wear clean clothes and brush their hair, and generally behave in a civilised manner, they are enjoying the limelight.
Letter: A quick word; OPINION MADELEINE MCCANN
It's about time programme makers started to treat us like adults, and not pea-brained idiots with the attention span of a goldfish.
Why we all suffer for liberal views
The pea-brained officer must learn that discretion will bring the respect of the public at large.
Letter: IN BRIEF - Miss Farthing
My first impulse was to feel sorry for the speaker's nephew, who had to be in school while his pea-brained uncle got to go to glamorous parties in Park City, Utah, and bad-mouth Gus Van Sant's visionary new movie.
Desert hearts: like his earlier My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant's Gerry invites us to watch hunky young stars do mystifying things
The biggest threat to the long-form article, Scherer suggests, isn't pea-brained readers, but editors who believe their own condescending blather about what readers want.
The Maxim way. (Press & Media)
Beating those pea-brained, cold-blooded, piscatorial combatants is the organizational context, i.e., meeting the organization's objectives of (angling) dominance through minimal risk taking and maximum outcomes (fish in the bag).
Freud, fishing and risk management. (end analysis)
Amanda Naughton is all elegance as embittered Countess Charlotte, and Brad Little is aptly tall, big-voiced and pea-brained as her two-timing husband.
A Little Night Music. (Resident)
'It is quite easy for anyone to make such pea-brained claims and besmirch the names of Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and ACT Teachers party lists.
Bayan Muna hits 'military psywar' vs Makabayan bloc