blithering idiot
Frequency: 8.01.5 per million words
a complete fool; used to express contempt
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Examples (10)
- You absolute blithering idiot! You've deleted the entire project.
- Only a blithering idiot would try to repair a live wire without turning off the power.
- I felt like a blithering idiot when I realized I'd been pushing a door marked 'PULL'.
- He called his new intern a blithering idiot under his breath for shredding the wrong documents.
- Why would you trust that blithering idiot with your password?
- The way he handled the presentation made him look like a complete blithering idiot.
- Get out of the road, you blithering idiot!
- It takes a special kind of blithering idiot to lose a winning lottery ticket.
- My grandfather loves to say that any politician who makes such a promise is a blithering idiot.
- She had to apologize for calling the customer service agent a blithering idiot out of frustration.