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In this video clip from 30 Rock, the woman says

Ryan is my sex idiot.

I wonder what it means?

Is it a general usage to add an adjective to "idiot" to give it some special meaning?

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Please provide a transcription of the relevant bits with sufficient context. – coleopterist Oct 13 '12 at 18:42
I added the transcribed sentence, but there isn't much context. It sounds like there must have been a reference to "sex idiots" earlier in the show. – KitFox♦ Oct 13 '12 at 19:37
@KitFox: Is it a general phrase? – Tim Oct 13 '12 at 19:44
@Tim I don't know. – KitFox♦ Oct 13 '12 at 22:35
The video clip is a teaser, so no idea @KitFox if there is a definition elsewhere in the show – yet. Elsewhere we also have: "[Lochte] played … a sex idiot. He was good at it." My impression is the phrase should simply be taken literally: a person who is an idiot when it comes to sex. – MετάEd Oct 14 '12 at 5:17

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To be clear when discussing English/what exists in the English language, I would take anything having to do with Ryan Lochte with a grain of salt.

He's known to be an "idiot" in general, and I think here it may mean something along the lines of, all he's worth to her is sex. Good looking, athletic, but when it comes to the smarts, he's just plain stupid.

So maybe they just have sex, without anything else. Because... he's an idiot.

Hope that helps, haven't seen this show.

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