A few days ago
mrquestion

What does “a few bricks shy of a load” mean? Stupid or crazy?

What does “a few bricks shy of a load” mean? Stupid or crazy?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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the same as 1 fry short of a Happy Meal!
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A few days ago
coffee
More stupid than crazy. It tends to mean more that the person is “not the sharpest tool in the box” or in plain terms “a bit thick”.
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A few days ago
jan51601
It is a pun, meaning a person is not too smart. Other examples:

24 cents shy of a quarter

his elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.

when they handed out brains, he thought they said rain and ran into the house.

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A few days ago
Matarc
It means that you are “one sandwich short of a picnic”. Not necessarily stupid, per se, but not the sharpest tack in the bunch….hey, I can keep answering this with other analogies…but hey, I wasn’t born yesterday….LOL!
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A few days ago
exciteops
Pretty sure it means stupid. But I think do to modern usage, it can be either or.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
stupid
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A few days ago
mac
That they are slow–stupid—-missing what it takes….not nice at all.
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