"Hook in your idiot savant and I'll give it the data direct."

Instead we might speculate that the idiot savant is like a reckless explorer.

He is something of an idiot savant with a great gift for horticulture.

It is also one which can turn ingenious quickly, like an idiot savant, once convinced of a goal.

There are elements of the classical idiot savant, although he does not fit easily into that category.

An idiot savant with a specialty in expository writing would never let such things happen, of course.

Instead, for years to come, I would hear "idiot savant."

Was Warhol, who died in 1987, a bit of an idiot savant?

Almost like an idiot savant, Harry was good at only one thing-flying.

Insisting otherwise makes him into a kind of idiot savant who could create but not choose.