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1 not playing with a full deck
(Slang) geestelijk onbekwaam of onstabiel; gek, onzinnig
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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