September 8, 2011

the sharpest pencil in the pack

Posted in Idioms at 11:03 am by Feng

the sharpest pencil in the pack — the smartest

In a seminar, the speaker wasn’t impressed by the programming capability of some developers. He referred to them as “not the sharpest pencil the pack“.

1 Comment »

  1. Soup said,

    I think a better phrase would be,”Not the brightest crayon in the box.”


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