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There's one born every minute

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There's one born every minute.

  (humorous)

something that you say about someone who you think has been very stupid 'He left a window open and then wondered why he'd been burgled!' 'There's one born every minute, isn't there?'

See That's's one for the books, take each day as it comes, be of like mind, be one sandwich short of a picnic, six of one and half a dozen of the other

See also: born, every, minute, one