September 8, 2011
the sharpest pencil in the pack
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“.
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Soup said,
November 21, 2011 at 5:57 am
I think a better phrase would be,”Not the brightest crayon in the box.”