dead from the neck up
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dead from the neck up
Stupid. Did I just say that two plus two equals five? Wow, I'm dead from the neck up today.
dead from the neck up
1. Fig. stupid. (With a "dead" head.) She acts like she is dead from the neck up.
2. Fig. no longer open to new ideas. Everyone on the board of directors is dead from the neck up.
dead from the neck up
Extremely stupid, as in That news commentator sounds dead from the neck up. This expression alludes to being "brain-dead." [Early 1900s]
dead from the neck up
BRITISH, INFORMALIf you say that someone is dead from the neck up, you are saying very rudely that they are stupid. Yes, he's good-looking, but he's dead from the neck up.
dead from the neck (or chin) up
stupid. informal 1990 Film Comment Steward subscribes to the notion that all women are ‘nitwits and lunkheads, dead from the neck up’.
dead from the neck up
1. mod. stupid. (With a dead head.) She acts like she is dead from the neck up.
2. mod. no longer open to new ideas. Everyone on the board of directors is dead from the neck up.
dead from the neck up
Extremely stupid. This slangy metaphor was first recorded in 1911. John Dos Passos used it in Forty-second Parallel (1930): “Most of the inhabitants are dead from the neck up.”