關於Genius的意思和用法的提問

A: this slang phrase can be used to mean someone/something is just purely, clearly, and definitely something

in this case, “flat-out genius” means this person is without a doubt a genius

you could use this in many contexts:

“I’m flat out tired of working all day”
“That guy is flat out the strongest guy I’ve ever seen”

hope this helps!

A: It's not an idiom. It's sarcasm. It means that it's easy for anyone to see what his/her (the other person) skills are.

A: “Turn on each other” is an English expression that means to change your mind in a negative way. For example the class turned on the teacher after she assigned too much homework.

A: I think it is trying to say 'he was a genius in his major, branch. But Im not sure.

A: It's equivalating emotions to spices which god sprinkled onto existance. So they're saying when god made existance, he "sprinkled" genius and "chance of doom" onto the world in its creation.

Hope this makes sense XD

A: Genius = very smart person

Examples:
Albert Einstein was a genius.
You don’t have to be a genius to figure it out.

A: 'She is a genius! She knows everything!'

A: Genius is a noun and ingenious is an adjective.

He was a genius and invented many ingenious devices.

A: genius is used when a person is really smart. genie is a mythical being from a movie.

A: It is very easy. See, "genius" is a noun. "ingenious" is an adjective. 
F.E:
¤ Tesla was a genius!
¤ The fridge was an ingenious invention.

A: The problem, however, is that in English there are more exceptions to the rule than words that follow the rule. Geniuses is an example of this (that and genii just looks like a misspelling of genie)

A: When they are used as an adjective, there is no difference:
An ingenious plan / A genius plan

However, I prefer ingenious in the adjective case. It depends on the speaker.

Genius can also be used as a noun while ingenious cannot.

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A: イギリス人もgeniusと言います。

A: Correction: "Why do most geniuses die earlier than normal people?"

A: "When he set himself up as being intelligent, I thought that he was joking. But now I think he is truly a genius."

or

"When he first presented himself as being intelligent, I thought that he was joking. But now I think he is truly a genius"

A: Firstly it is a single word "whomever"
Secondly "whomever" is used as the object of a sentence. You are using it as the subject, so it should be "Whoever had invented this is a genius. What is the name of this device". The BrE spelling is "device" and you need to split it into two sentences.
A correct example of the use of "whomever" is "He can give his money to whomever he wishes".

A: @Miyu1204 You can say "a genius 〜" like this informally but it's not really correct grammar.

People do say it though. : )

A: A genius is just someone who's been put in the right place at the right time. Unfortunately, most of us are in positions where we can't show our true potential