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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?
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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?
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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.
See also: fucking, instruction, read
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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.
See also: fucking, read
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"It is surely enough that you know the result of the instructions. Why should you agitate yourself to no purpose by reading them?
"There can be no end gained," pleaded the lawyer -- "forgive me for saying so -there can really be no useful end gained by my showing you the instructions."
Pendril quietly took the written instructions from his pocket.
Your instructions on both these points you will find detailed in the next paragraph.
Magdalen's resolution to possess herself of the Instructions did not appear to have produced a favorable impression on the lawyer's mind.
She slowly reached her hand to the copy of the Instructions, and slowly folded it up again, in the shape in which it had been presented to her.
Pendril put the Instructions back in his pocket, considered a little, and, turning toward Norah and Miss Garth, recalled their attention to the present and pressing necessities of the time.
But they were not prepared for her invincible resolution to read the Instructions; for the terrible questions which she had put to the lawyer; for her immovable determination to fix all the circumstances in her mind, under which Michael Vanstone's decision had been pronounced.
But I must take my instructions back to London with me to night.
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The sealed instructions, as I think, explain how it was that he died, after all, quietly in his bed.
If robbery for the purpose of gain was at the bottom of the conspiracy, the Colonel's instructions absolutely made the Diamond better worth stealing.
More words followed these, providing if my lady was dead, or if Miss Rachel was dead, at the time of the testator's decease, for the Diamond being sent to Holland, in accordance with the sealed instructions originally deposited with it.
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That you, on 27 May 2016, at the Malayan Banking Berhad, Dataran Maybank branch, Aras 1, Tower A, No.1 Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, did engage in money laundering, in that you gave the instructions to deposit a sum of RM3,800,000 into account number 22 as a fixed deposit with the serial number A62 via Maybank account number: 56 belonging to Messrs Lewis and Co, Advocates and Solicitors, which are the proceeds of unlawful activity and thereby you have committed an offence under Section 4(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (Act 613), punishable under Section 4(1) of the same Act.
The raft of money-laundering charges against Umno president Zahid Hamidi
Compressed instruction set architecture (ISA) thus becomes one of solutions to such code size problem, and dual instruction set processors such as ARM/Thumb [1] and MIPS/MIPS16 [2] can execute both a normal 32-bit instruction set and a compressed 16-bit instruction set, which in fact is a subset of frequently used 32-bit instructions.
Addressing Mode Extension to the ARM/Thumb Architecture
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