For a writer, it's a mother lode of vernacular: hollow as a churn (empty-headed); that'll fetch the bacon out of you (slim you down); and not the sharpest knife in the drawer (dumb).
Simon Worrall
for National Geographic
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For a writer, it's a mother lode of vernacular: hollow as a churn (empty-headed); that'll fetch the bacon out of you (slim you down); and not the sharpest knife in the drawer (dumb).
Simon Worrall
for National Geographic