Your basket: 0,00 €

You are adding to one sandwich short of a picnic. What is already there stays, we only add yours.

Your voice

Say it out loud, 3 to 60 seconds. Reading it is not the same as hearing it.

Explain in a street-style audio what it means and give an example of how it is used. That is all we need.

0:00
How does it sound?
Where is it said? Where the expression is used, which need not be only your own patch.

Change it

Real-life examples
  • Dave tried to iron his shirt while still wearing it, then blamed the kettle for the burn. He’s one sandwich short of a picnic, bless him.
  • He tried to defrost the fish with a hairdryer, bless him, one sandwich short of a picnic that lad.
  • She means well but she's one sandwich short of a picnic, left the car running in the drive all afternoon.
  • I asked him to grab the birthday candles and he came back with AA batteries. Man's one sandwich short of a picnic.
  • She's lovely, but she put the remote in the fridge and spent ten minutes looking for it. Proper one sandwich short of a picnic.
The way it is really said, not the way a dictionary would say it.

What happens next

  1. 1
    We check it We make sure people really say it and that it isn't already here under another spelling.
  2. 2
    It goes live with your name It enters the dictionary and your Magikito profile, setines included.
  3. 3
    And we polish it We add its tone, where it comes from when that's known, and its sibling expressions.

One second: confirm you are a person