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nice-but-dim

発音

• (英国発音) IPA(key): /ˌnʌɪsbətˈdɪm/

形容詞

nice-but-dim (not comparable)

1. (Britain, colloquial) Good-natured, while also being rather unintelligent. [from 20th c.]
   • 2001, Andrew Morton, Posh & Becks, p. 190:
     […] he was worried that Michael Parkinson might ask him questions with long words that he wouldn't understand, no doubt fearing a resurgence of the “nice-but-dim” taunts that had all too often come his way.
   • 2002, John Crace, The Guardian, 23 July:
     While there was always a touch of the caricature about the Sandhurst cadet as the nice-but-dim public schoolboy, there was also a significant measure of truth.
   • 2007, Joe Studwell, Asian Godfathers, p. 169:
     The main difference in Hong Kong was that 1997 witnessed a transition from colonial rule to government by tycoon, as the nice-but-dim shipping heir Tung Chee-hwa became the territory's first chief executive.

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