| 单词 | a bear of little brain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa bear of (very) little brain P9. a bear of (very) little brain: a person of little intelligence (often used self-deprecatingly).With reference to A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (see quot. 1926). ΚΠ 1926 A. A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh iv. 48 ‘What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?’ said Pooh. ‘For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.’] 1935 Church Q. Rev. July 348 If anyone comes to this introduction hoping to have his mind made up (for some of us are, like Winnie the Pooh, bears of very little brain and like to be told what to think) disappointment awaits him. 1960 4th Rep. Select Comm. Estimates 212/1 in Parl. Papers 1959–60 (H.C. 260) VI. 1 Being ‘a bear of little brain,’ I like to think of it in terms of practicality. 1972 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. d9/2 [She] was assumed to be a bear of very little brain..and why should she be making all that money? 2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year vi. 39 May I join, please? Although I'm a bear of very little brain, I might give your serious little group a bit of badly needed glam. < as lemmas |
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