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He is only half-baked. He is a soft, a noodle. The allusion is to bread, piecrust, etc., only half-cooked.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.