mastermind | Idiomator

Meaning: A person with anextraordinaryintellectorskillthat is markedlysuperiorto theirpeers.1840,Edgar Allan Poe,The Colloquy of Monos and Una:At long intervals somemaster-mindsappeared, looking upon each advance in practical science as a retro-gradation in the true utility.2003, Steve Kemper, chapter 2, inCode Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World,→ISBN, page34:His first outside hire wasn't an electronics whiz or a mechanicalmastermind, but a young industrial designer, a creature hitherto unknown at DEKA.; (idiomatic)A personresponsiblefor thehighestlevelofplanningandexecutionof amajoroperation.2007, Mark S. Hamm, chapter 6, inTerrorism as Crime: from Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond,→ISBN, page196:The first was with none other than Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM),mastermindof the 9/11 attacks.2025March 14, Hsieh Hsin-en, Ko Lin, “Supreme Court upholds verdicts in 2022 Tainan shooting case”, inFocus Taiwan‎[1], archived fromthe originalon14 March 2025, Society‎[2]:Prosecutors later suspected that Wang, chairman of Ciji Temple in Tainan's Syuejia District, was themastermindbehind the shootings, but the court acquitted him of the charge because of insufficient evidence.

Examples:

EN: The mastermind.
ES: El listo.
EN: Who? --- A criminal; the hidden mastermind
ES: - Un criminal, una mente maestra.
EN: Ask the mastermind what he's doing here.
ES: Pregúntele al cerebro qué está haciendo aquí.
EN: A mastermind!
ES: ¡Qué cerebro!
ES: ¡Qué cerebro!
EN: For months the police sought the mastermind behind those crimes, the man behind the curtain.
ES: Durante meses la policía buscó al cerebro detrás de esos crímenes, el hombre detrás de la cortina.
EN: That's the nice part of being with a mastermind you do the thinking for both of us.
ES: Es lo bueno de ser el cerebro usted piensa por los dos.
EN: All right, mastermind.
ES: Vale, genio.
EN: Well mastermind, now what?
ES: ¿Qué hacemos, genio?
EN: What? They've caught up with your racket. Mister mastermind.
ES: Han descubierto tu tráfico, señor genio.
EN: Don't worry. Harry and I go in business where you and the mastermind left off.
ES: Harry y yo retomaremos el trabajo donde lo habéis dejado.
EN: If you want to see the mastermind Moxley, he's in there.
ES: Si quiere ver al creador del Plan Moxley, está ahí dentro.
EN: Toss that mastermind of yours into high and listen.
ES: Usa ese gran cerebro que tienes y escucha.
EN: Alright, mastermind, tell me whom to write about.
ES: Muy bien, cerebro, dime sobre quién escribir.
EN: The mastermind must not be disturbed.
ES: Las mentes maestras no deben ser alteradas.
EN: I guess little Miss Innocence didn't fall for the mastermind's tricks.
ES: Creo que la Srta. Inocencia no cayó en la trampa del genio.

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