mental giant

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mental giant

n. a genius. I’m no mental giant, but I do know trouble when I see it.

References in classic literature ?

The Temple of Issus is to the therns what the Valley Dor is imagined by the peoples of the outer world to be to them; it is the ultimate haven of peace, refuge, and happiness to which they pass after this life and wherein an eternity of eternities is spent amidst the delights of the flesh which appeal most strongly to this race of mental giants and moral pygmies.

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I think it was the former mental giant, manager of the Dodgers who once pronounced, "Nice guys finish last.

Some nice guys finish last

PAT RILEY, on the ultimate failure of Howard Cosell: "Howard was a mental giant but he never realized in always telling it like it is, he never made anything better.

Coaches' corner

It takes a real mental giant to lose money on a successful bank robbery, but this dude had the talent.

He took their paper, but he left his gold. (The 10-Ring)

But Burrill, who calls Babin ``a mental giant,'' believes in him 100 percent and has faith the right-hander will bounce back and emerge as a key contributor.

RIVALRY COULD INTENSIFY

Translating a mischievous mental giant like Borges is especially tricky.

Collected Fictions

The mental giant Marilyn Vos Savant recently answered a reader in Parade who wanted to know why everything we did ended with ourselves worse off than before.

Ruminations in the mulch

It doesn't take a mental giant to realize that it's a good idea to take on a new line that's being backed by $10 million to $40 million in advertising--so who needs a buying committee?

"Sound off' comments

Again, you don't have to be a mental giant or know higher math to understand what is happening with numbers.

Don't be intimidated by marketing mumbo jumbo

Mister Mental Giant broke out his handy-dandy X-acto knife, painfully carved the slug out of his own leg, and sold it to the shooter for $200.

Another rhodes scholar. (Back blast & other hot gases)

It wouldn't take a mental giant to envision the power and unity of a nation in which our president would represent the entire nation instead of the political party that put him into office.