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dim bulb
noun
A person who is slow-witted.
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A conventional cathode-ray-tube monitor is something of a dim bulb.
You'd have to be a pretty dim bulb not to realize that LED light is the future.
Kenny and dim bulb Jimmy have a great relationship as brothers, one that transcends their differing sexual orientations.
As her traumatized acolytes, anxiety-ridden Gretchen and dim bulb Karen, Ashley Park and Kate Rockwell make for thoroughly enjoyable semi-hostages to Regina's hardhearted whims.
Hugh Bonneville plays Torquil Helvior-Jayne, the self-important dim bulb with the bed-wetting son, as an oblivious frat boy.
Sifton called Freund and forwarded her exchange with "the mysterious Mr. Newman" to Freund and Bickel, adding, in a postscript, "He seems like a rather dim bulb".
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Mr. Reilly really sells his dim-bulb expression.
Thomas Jefferson Byrd, for example, plays the actor Sheldon Forrester, whose dim-bulb exterior masks some strong opinions.
He began as a supporting player in 1979's Quadrophenia and then played the dim-bulb electrician in TV's Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Not necessarily because his haughty, out-of-touch, classist meanderings would be hilariously at odds with Louis Walsh's dim-bulb squawking.
Mr. Sonnenfeld and Mr. Suarez agreed that Patrick Warburton, best known as Julia Louis-Dreyfuss's dim-bulb boyfriend on "Seinfeld," would make the perfect Tick.
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