someone who is not very clever, according to others
not very intelligent
a bit slow
slightly (or a lot) behind the rest at getting a joke.
stupid
Joe doesn’t seem to understand that we’re working to a different schedule now, since the workload has doubled. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Great Uncle Bob was never the sharpest tool in the shed. It’s better now that he’s completely deaf, because now we no longer have to explain everything to him every five minutes.
My brother’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. I think he might have been dropped on his head as a baby.
I knew she wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but honestly – I didn’t know she was THAT dense!
I admit I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed – but at least give me the benefit of the doubt and let me enter the quiz.
There is no origin for this idiom
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