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• be one card short of a full deck — be one card/several cards short of a full deck humorous if someone is one card short of a full deck, they are stupid or crazy. Do you think your cousin might be one card short of a full deck? …   New idioms dictionary

• be several cards short of a full deck — be one card/several cards short of a full deck humorous if someone is one card short of a full deck, they are stupid or crazy. Do you think your cousin might be one card short of a full deck? …   New idioms dictionary

• play with a full deck — in. to operate as if one were mentally sound. (Usually in the negative. One cannot play cards with a partial deck.) □ That guy’s not playing with a full deck. □ Look sharp, you dummies! Pretend you are playing with a full deck …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• not playing with a full deck — I informal mentally deficient II see deck * * * not playing with a full deck see ↑deck, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑full …   Useful english dictionary

• (not) playing with a full deck (of cards) —    Someone who is not playing with a full deck (of cards) lacks intelligence or does not have full mental abilities.     Old Mrs.Whitehead was not playing with a full deck when she bought that fancy lawnmower! …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• one card shy of a full deck — adjective mentally deranged; demented; insane. That guy might be one card shy of a full deck he thinks that is really a . Syn: a few sandwiches short of a picnic …   Wiktionary

• not playing with a full deck — not rational, not all there    People say he s not stable that he s not playing with a full deck …   English idioms

• without a full deck — mentally unbalanced, one brick short...    At times he acts strange like he s playing without a full deck …   English idioms

• a card short of a full deck —    stupid    A variant of fifty cards in the pack:    Lewis has occasionally been dismissed as a card or two short of a full deck. {Daily Telegraph, 10 June 1997 an optimistic and genial television journalist with the BBC was subject to criticism …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• play with a full deck —    to be mentally alert    Euphemistic only in the negative:     The writer of that piece of filth is obviously not playing with a full deck. (Sanders, 1992)    And see fifty cards in the pack …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• deck — /dek/, n. 1. Naut. a. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. b. the space between such a… …   Universalium