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Originally Posted by Delmobile  As long as this video is still a hot topic - I will go ahead and pose my question. I am a native speaker AND I live in the south, and I cannot for the life of me make out what it is he says at 2:30. "Some folks say I'm not the brightest bulb in the..." in the what? |
"...in the knife drawer." It's a mixed metaphor:
Not the brightest bulb on the tree.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
There was also this reverse metaphor, "The tree don't fall far from the nut."