Idiom
three Stooges
Meaning
A group of three stupid people.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Those three guys are acting like the Three Stooges.”
“The project failed because the Three Stooges in the office forgot to save the files.”
“The committee members bickered incessantly, appearing to the rest of the staff as nothing more than the Three Stooges.”
Examples
simple
“Those three guys are acting like the Three Stooges.”
contextual
“The project failed because the Three Stooges in the office forgot to save the files.”
complex
“The committee members bickered incessantly, appearing to the rest of the staff as nothing more than the Three Stooges.”
Origin
From The Three Stooges (1922-1970), a comedy troupe whose stage act and short films featured three quarrelsome and absurd characters of low intelligence, given to insults and violent slapstick, who often stood in contrast with or were manipulated by characters of a higher social class.
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