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dead from the neck up

 
Idioms: dead from the neck up

Extremely stupid, as in That news commentator sounds dead from the neck up. This expression alludes to being "brain-dead." [Early 1900s]


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1. mod. stupid. (With a dead head.)  She acts like she is dead from the neck up.
2. mod. no longer open to new ideas.  Everyone on the board of directors is dead from the neck up.

 
 

 

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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Slang Dictionary. McGraw-Hill's Essential American Slang Dictionary. Copyright © 2007 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more