Citations:room-temperature IQ

Noun: "(idiomatic, slang, pejorative) a below-average IQ; by extension, a dull or unintelligent mind"

 * 1990, Jim Bashline, "An Honorable Profession", Field & Stream, June 1990:
 * It's the proverbial two-way street; treat a guide like he has more than a room-temperature IQ, and he'll do likewise.
 * 1995, William Flanagan, Like Mother, Like Son, St. Martin's Press (2011), ISBN 9781429922319, unnumbered page:
 * In short, if you were a male high school grad with deep pockets but only a room-temperature IQ, you could probably get into Sarah Lawrence in 1978.
 * 1995, "A tangled web unsnarled", InfoWorld, 19 June 1995:
 * He rolled his eyes and looked at me as if I had a room-temperature IQ.
 * 1996, Bruce Marvin, Criminal Intent, Glenbridge Publishing (1996), ISBN 9780944435342, page 114:
 * To think how I let this harmless, nut-crunching character with a room-temperature IQ terrify me!
 * 1996, Edward Hibbert, "Star chow", The Advocate, 10 December 1996:
 * There's more than a soupcon of camp percolating through the recipes in this collection, as any reader with more than a room-temperature IQ will be able to appreciate.
 * 2000, J. J. Luna, How to Be Invisible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Your Assets, Your Identity, and Your Life, Thomas Dunne Books (2000), ISBN 0312252501, page 124:
 * (Does this lawyer have a room-temperature IQ?)
 * 2000, Maggie Price, On Dangerous Ground, Silhouette Books (2000), ISBN 9781459218116, unnumbered page:
 * “The guy's got a room-temperature IQ. He dropped out of grade school. To him, DNA is probably just three letters.”
 * 2006, William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Little Good, The Penguin Press (2006), ISBN 9781101218129, unnumbered page:
 * The colonizers, displaying a room-temperature IQ about the locals, didn't know how to deal with the many non-chief societies in Africa.
 * 2006, Jay MacLarty, Live Wire, Pocket Books (2006), ISBN 1416522956, page 5:
 * That the President would assume it was “an excellent idea” only confirmed what Tucker now knew to be true: in addition to being an avaricious profiteer, the man had a room-temperature IQ—and the sooner he was gone, the safer the country would be.
 * 2006, Frater Nyarlathotep & Jesse Lindsay, Ardeth: The Made Vampire, Lulu Enterprises, Inc. (2006), ISBN 9781847285164, page 18:
 * Anyone with more than a room-temperature IQ and a few years of life experience knows that civilization offers no social compact, no humane mutuality, no justice except for those at the top.
 * 2009, Steven "Kelly" Grayson, En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between, Kaplan Publishing (2009), ISBN 9781427799715, page 80:
 * Careful, Kelly. It's not his fault he has a room-temperature IQ. If you tell him how fucking stupid he is, he'll just go into a sulk and be of no use to you.
 * 2011, Gregg Loomis, The Coptic Secret, Dorchester Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781428511408, page 51:
 * “Sara? I need you to call Home Depot, see if you can get someone on the phone with at least a room-temperature IQ . . .”
 * 2012, David Fessenden, Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles, Krause Publications (2012), ISBN 9781440234323, unnumbered page:
 * Anyone with a half a room-temperature IQ could have routinely figured out that breaking a couple of them, while on the range, would not put them in any great peril.