How Dumb Is That?
Prompted by a query by one of my friends as to whether we tended to say “dumb as a bag of hammers”, “dumb as a box of hair”, or “dumb as a box of hammers” I did the following Googling on “Dumb as a X”:
- Dumb as a * : 502,000
- Bag of hammers: 30,700
- Box of hair: 2,960
- Box of hammers: 1,600
- Box of Rocks: 36,600
- Bag of Rocks: 843
- Bag of Hamsters: 2
- A Shed: 2
- A Post: 33,900
- A Stump: 35,500
- A Rock: 64,000
- A Brick: 36,300
“Dumb as an *”:21,100
- Ox: 675
- Oyster: 18,400
- Elephant: 2,860