"An absentminded professor am I, remember," he murmured back in stilted Panglais.

They considered him the typical absentminded professor.

And he always played the absentminded professor, claiming to have forgotten the schedule.

"He's beginning to sound like an absentminded professor," Bethany commented.

You're turning into an absentminded professor already," Hoetzer said, handing it over.

From a living example of the awkward, absentminded professor, he was transformed entirely into a silver-voiced, messianic other.

Eventually she hoped to be a college professor, which would make her the stereotypical absentminded professor.

I learned to take refuge behind books, to become, as my mother and father called me, 'the absentminded professor'.

She's like the absentminded professor in that old movie.

He wasn't quite the absentminded professor people made jokes about, but he wasn't far removed, either.