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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

One cell short of a battery

The idiom "one cell short of a battery" means "stupid." Is this a well-known idiom?
  

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Hi, No, never heard that. However, there are some quite common versions of this, eg one sandwich short of a picnic. eg one brick short of a load Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, No, never heard that.
  • However, there are some quite common versions of this, eg one sandwich short of a picnic.
  • eg one brick short of a load Clive
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Hi,

No, never heard that.

However, there are some quite common versions of this,
eg one sandwich short of a picnic.
eg one brick short of a load

Clive
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This presumably is in the same category as sayings like "thruppence short of a pound," although this one is unusual as it requires considerable electrical knowledge. How many people would know offhand what the structure of a battery is? I personally have never heard it, but I'm in the US, and these types of sayings are apparently heard more in the UK.

The meaning, as I understand it, i
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No, and it itself is stupid. A single cell is a battery. You have to be one or more Xs short of a Y, where a number of Xs normally are needed to make up a complete Y.
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