thick as a brick

English

Adjective

thick as a brick (not comparable)

1. (simile) stupid; slow to learn or understand.

Translations

Translations

• Czech: blbý jak vůl (cs) ("stupid as an ox")
• Dutch: plank voor het hoofd ("a beam in front of the head")
• French: bête comme ses pieds ("dumb as their own feet")
• German: dumm wie Brot ("as dumb as bread")
• Hebrew: טיפש כמו נעל ("as stupid as a shoe")
• Icelandic: nautheimskur
• Mandarin: 愚不可及 (cmn) (yúbùkějí) ("so thick that no one else in the world can compare")

• Polish: głupi jak but
• Russian: тупо́й, как про́бка (ru) (tupój, kak próbka) /dumb as a cork/
• Slovene: neumen kot noč, ("as stupid as night")
• Swedish: dum som en gås (sv)

See also

• thick as a pig
• dumb as an ox