meeting of the mindless
- noun
- Offensive
:
reunión de idiotas
- The weekly staff update quickly devolved into a meeting of the mindless, with no productive results.
Examples
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Whenever they gather without an agenda, it becomes a meeting of the mindless.
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We joked that yesterday's conference call was just another meeting of the mindless.
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The last meeting of the mindless was a complete waste of time!
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We had another meeting of the mindless yesterday.
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The weekly staff update quickly devolved into a meeting of the mindless, with no productive results.
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We joked that yesterday's conference call was just another meeting of the mindless.
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Whenever they gather without an agenda, it becomes a meeting of the mindless.
Synonyms
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7.3
A lack of thought or care in what someone does
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9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
Antonyms
How Productive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly interpretable as a meeting composed of 'mindless' people: 'meeting' (a gathering) + 'the mindless' (people lacking thought), so the overall sense is compositionally derived from its parts. The nominalization pattern 'the + adjective' is common cross-linguistically and the expression requires no idiomatic shift beyond a slight humorous play on 'meeting of the minds', so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Meeting of the mindless may come from a joking change of the older phrase meeting of the minds. Imagine a room full of people with empty heads and no new ideas, so a meeting of the mindless simply means 'an unproductive meeting'.