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idiot savants

  • plural
    of idiot savant.
    idiot savant
    noun
    a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.

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The Rodarte creation story casts the designers as outsiders and idiot savants who made an entire industry swoon to their imagination.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2016

Camp, like any medium, needs its dedicated workers as much as it needs its idiot savants.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2013

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