[Ads-l] antedating "birdbrain"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 26 18:44:43 UTC 2020


OED: 1943

1930 Cleveland Plain Dealer (May 11) Fiction Magazine 2: I’m such an utter
bird-brain where art of any sort is concerned!

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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