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mind like a steel trap, have a
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Be very quick to understand something, as in Aunt Ida may be old, but she still has a mind like a steel trap . This simile likens the snapping shut of an animal trap to a quick mental grasp.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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