idiot-savant

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English

Noun

idiot-savant (plural idiots-savants)

  1. Alternative form of idiot savant
    • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
      That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).