ПРОФЕССОР КИСЛЫХ ШЕЙ

•ПРОФЕССОР КИСЛЫХ ЩЕЙ highly colt

[NP;usu.sing; often used asInterj; fixedWO]

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⇒used to express an ironic or humorous attitude toward a person who makes a pretense of having considerable knowledge, but, in the speaker's opinion, has little or none, when said of a real professor, used to underscore what the speaker considers a lack of professional qualifications, academic expertiseetc:

-some expert he (she) is!;

- [of a real professor]fine kind of professor (scholaretc) he (she) is!