У БАБЫ ВОЛОС ДОЛОГ, А УМ КОРОТОК

• У БАБЫ ВОЛОС ДОЛОГ, ДА <А> УМ КОРОТОК

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⇒ (used to express the condescending opinion held by some men that women lack worldly wisdom) although a woman may be attractive, she lacks sound judgment:

- ≈ long of hair and short of brains.

     ♦ Строже всего Семён хранил тайну от жены. Баба и есть баба - волос долог, да ум короток. Поведай, не утерпит - разнесёт по селу (Тендряков 1). Simon kept his secret carefully from his wife. A woman was a woman-long of hair and short of brains, as the saying is. In all likelihood she wouldn't be able to keep her mouth shut, and would go round telling everybody in the village (la).