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What does it mean?
Describing someone who knows a lot but is informal.
In plain terms
A person who knows everything but drinks beer.
What can you take from it?
Intellectuals can be casual.

Where it applies

  • describing friends
  • character sketches

Putting it to work

  • value diverse personalities

Another view

Stereotypical description.

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