But Mr. Achebe and his classmates responded with "exasperation at this bumbling idiot of a character," he wrote.
He'd start muttering, 'Look at those fools; look at that idiot of a man,' and so on.
"And look at me," said Stephen Colbert, who plays a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot" of a news correspondent on "The Daily Show".
One of the toadies is Sir Edward Denham, the nephew of Lady Denham's second husband, and an idiot of a very particular brand.
This is Weiner's stylish wife, the elegant and cerebral Huma Abedin, who is standing by her idiot of a husband.
Akshay Kumar plays Happy Singh, the uber idiot of a Punjabi village full of chicken-chasing numskulls, who has to leave behind the ever-smiling imbeciles of his homestead to go and bring back his cousin, Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood).
Athletes can only hope their chemists are on top of their game, unlike the blithering idiot of a doctor who apparently or allegedly gave cold medicine to the 16-year-old gymnastics gold medalist from Romania, Andreea Raducan.
Wasn't he a dull witted idiot of a dishonorably discharged low ranking soldier?
An idiot of a photographer had come over from the nearby city of Chennai.
As I've watched George W. pied-piper our nation into an international sewer, I've felt angry and, yes, bitter that he is our idiot of a president.
