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单词 to be unable to pour water out of a boot
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to be unable to pour water (also piss, etc.) out of a boot
P2. transitive. U.S. colloquial. to be unable to pour water (also piss, etc.) out of a boot and variants: to be unable to perform even the simplest task; to be stupid or incompetent.
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1912 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 26 Dec. Ivor is one vast compendium of useless wisdom, with hardly horse sense enough to pour water out of a boot.
1927 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 25 Mar. 13/6 He couldn't pour water out of a boot with directions printed on the heel.
1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) lxxxiii. 123 You've went and fucked a silly chore-boy, that don't know enough to pour piss out of a boot!
1976 J. F. Heath Decade of Disillusionm. vii. 233 The OAS couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
1999 Workforce 78 61/3 Rules and regulations designed for numbskulls who couldn't pour milk out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel.
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