thick as two short planks
thick as two short planks adjective: very stupid.
Adjective
thick as two short planks (not comparable)
- Very stupid.
- “I dunno. He’s thick as two short planks of wood, but his six brothers are all banged up in here, so he’s got eyes and ears all over the prison. Auntie Flip better watch out.”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- thick as a brick, thick as a plank, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed
Synonyms of thick as two short planks
- thick as a brick
- thick as a plank
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
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- birdbrained
- blockheaded
- Boeotian
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- braindead
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- daft
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dozy
- drowsy
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
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