dummkopf
/ˈdo͝omˌkôf/ /-ˌkôpf/ /ˈdəm-
/noun
A stupid person; a blockhead.I experienced May 8 in Marienbad, as a seventeen year old dummkopf who believed in the final victory right up to the end....
- ‘Eh, it's Alex, that dummkopf,’ the other man said.
- ‘Don't be a coward and hide, French dummkopf,’ he spat the words out at the Frenchman.
Origin
Early 19th century: from German dumm 'dumb' + Kopf 'head'.
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- there's more to someone (or something) than meets the eye
- there's no accounting for tastes (or taste)
- there's no fool like an old fool
- there's no law against it
- there's none so blind as those who will not see
- there's no (or little or not much) love lost between
- there's no such thing as a free lunch
- there's one (or a sucker) born every minute
- there's (or that's) —— for you
- there's safety in numbers
- the rest is history
- the Resurrection
- therethrough
- thereto
- theretofore
- thereunder
- thereunto
- thereupon
- the Revelation of St John the Divine
- the Revolution
- there wasn't a dry eye (in the house)
- there will be hell to pay
- therewith
- therewithal