[Ads-l] "anyone with half a brain"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Surprisingly early:

1890 _Minneapolis Tribune_ (May 31) 7 [Newspapers.com] : And anyone with
half a brain can actually figure out the plot to a dead certainty.

1899 _Adrian [Mich.] Daily Telegram_ (June 29) 1 [GenealogyBank]: Does
anybody with half a brain imagine that Burrows would have been elected
senator?


JL

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

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