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daft as a brush
vs
nutty as a fruitcake
daft as a brush
adj
Tending to do or say silly things.
nutty as a fruitcake
adj
Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty.
How often have the words
daft as a brush
and
nutty as a fruitcake
occurred in a corpus of books?
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