tenpence to the shilling

Phrase

UK dated slang

(UK, slang, dated) Mentally deficient.

Japanese Meaning

知的能力が低い（精神的に未成熟または発達が不十分な状態を示す）

年配の家主は嘲るように彼を精神的に欠けていると呼び、意地悪で時代遅れの俗語で彼の知的能力が十分でないことをほのめかしていた。

Sense（1）

(UK, slang, dated) Mentally deficient.

I knew that chap; but he never was more nor tenpence to the shilling. He was one of the men, we say, who fell out of his cradle and knocked his head.