"Not the sharpest knife in the drawer" nghĩa là gì?


"Not the sharpest knife in the drawer" = không phải con dao sắc nhất trong ngăn kéo -> nghĩa là không khôn ngoan, đần độn, ngu ngốc.

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So, all these various definitions (định nghĩa) of жлоб in various camps left the camps when the men were released. These former prisoners brought their various understandings of жлоб with them — and they now make up the modern definition of жлоб: a big, strong, cheap man who is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

‘Nick could come back!’, Michael said. ‘He’s not the brightest guy, he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, lets be honest. ‘He could just wander (lang thang) into the show and be like, “What, no I’m not supposed to be here!” It writes itself!

“He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer,” the president reportedly said in 2017, after the full extent of Don Jr.'s haphazardly (bừa bãi) arranged Trump Tower Moscow meeting came to light.

Mayweather said that he didn't get where he is today all by himself. "I had a great team — a lot of my friends around me got great ideas, and we come together as one. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I'm very sharp, and I am in the drawer," he said.

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