Idiom
brain surgeon
Meaning
Someone very intelligent and skillful.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You do not need to be a brain surgeon to understand this.”
“Fixing this broken shelf is not exactly brain surgeon work, so you can easily do it yourself.”
“While the task requires careful attention to detail, one hardly needs to be a brain surgeon to grasp the fundamental principles of the operation.”
Examples
simple
“You do not need to be a brain surgeon to understand this.”
contextual
“Fixing this broken shelf is not exactly brain surgeon work, so you can easily do it yourself.”
complex
“While the task requires careful attention to detail, one hardly needs to be a brain surgeon to grasp the fundamental principles of the operation.”
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