for dummies
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For Dummies is a reference book series covering topics from wine to quantum physics, written for readers with no prior knowledge.
The format has become shorthand for any simplified introduction: Give me the for dummies version.
The phrase can be self-deprecating or mildly insulting depending on who's the dummy.
- stupidLacking intelligence or judgment
- guidebooksBooks with destination information
- analogiesComparative resemblances drawn
- plain languageEasily understood communication
- plain EnglishUnadorned, accessible wording
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for dummiesadvanced
Far along in development
professional-grade · deep dive · technical · scholarly · masterclass
for dummiesimpenetrable
Impossible to pass through
inaccessible · abstruse · opaque · arcane · recondite
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