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no-brainer - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
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noun informal An easy or obvious conclusion , decision , solution , task , etc.; something requiring little or no thought .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
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And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer .
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer .
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer .
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer .
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
Now industry players are wondering how a project whose approval was called a "no-brainer " by Mr. Harper has instead been left to founder.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE 2011
Well that, Mr. Skimmer, is what we at City Hall call a no-brainer !
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
Well that, Mr. Skimmer, is what we at City Hall call a no-brainer !
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
In newspapers and on talk shows across Canada this week following President Barack Obama's decision to delay the $7 billion Keystone-XL pipeline that Prime Minister Harper had famously called a "no-brainer ," there's been no shortage of Monday-morning quarterbacking and questions about what went wrong with the proposed project.
MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011
It was a decision that the magazine's executive editor, John Knight, describes as a "no-brainer ."
Wired Top Stories Keith Axline 2011
For those in elected office trying to scale the clean economy, shouldn't kicking these highly profitable, mature industries off the dole have been a policy and political no-brainer ?
Mike Casey: Message Indiscipline and a Missed Opportunity for Clean Energy Mike Casey 2011
jmjarmstrong commented on the word no-brainer
JM reckons lobotomy is a no-brainer.
June 19, 2011