Brewer's: Flat-fish

He is a regular flat-fish. A dull, stupid fellow, not up to anything. The play is upon flat (stupid), and such fish as plaice, dabs, and soles.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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