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couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel
(Someone) is utterly incompetent or stupid; (someone) can't even manage or carry out the simplest of tasks. A: "Did you hear that Zack took the train home last night and left his car in the parking garage at work?" B: "I'm not surprised. That dummy couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!" The leaders of this country couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. What makes you think they can overhaul the entire tax code?
couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
(Someone) is utterly incompetent or stupid; (someone) can't even manage or carry out the simplest of tasks. A: "Did you hear that Zack took the train home last night and left his car in the parking garage at work?" B: "I'm not surprised. That dummy couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel!" The leaders of this country couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. What makes you think they can overhaul the entire tax code?
read the fucking instructions
rude slang An exclamation of frustration and exasperation directed at someone who has asked a question or series of questions that have already been answered in the instructions for something. Would you stop asking such boneheaded questions and just read the fucking instructions? I don't have time to hold your hand on every project we do. I don't understand how you could be having so many problems installing the software. Read the fucking instructions, dude.
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Read the fucking instructions!
and RTFI exclam. & comp. abb. Simply read the instructions. (Usually objectionable.) RTFI! It’s really very simple.
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- couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel
- couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
- couldn't raffle a chook in a pub
- organize
- pub
- raffle
- chook
- couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
- couldn't organise a chook raffle at a poultry farm
- couldn't organise a chook raffle in a (country) pub