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a few clowns short of a circus
vs
one card shy of a full deck
a few clowns short of a circus
one card shy of a full deck
adj
Synonym of a few cards shy of a full deck
How often have the words
a few clowns short of a circus
and
one card shy of a full deck
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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