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'It's a no-brainer'.

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sandyRoe | 15:18 Wed 09th Nov 2011 | ChatterBank
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What does this phrase mean? Something so simple that it needs no brains to complete it, or what?
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Yes
15:19 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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I take it to mean that something requires no thought to make a decision or give an answer.

Like 'Would China Doll like a bacon roll?'
15:19 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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There's an eclair shouting my name from the fridge...............
15:21 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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The answer to that would involve several swearies.
15:21 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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http://www.phrases.or...nings/no-brainer.html

tracing it to a comic strip in 1959
15:22 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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would you like another?
15:25 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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I would like some wine.
15:36 Wed 09th Nov 2011
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It took me a very long time to realise that it means the opposite of "if you do that thing, you have no brains" - I don't like the expression at all.
15:37 Wed 09th Nov 2011

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