have a screw loose
Verb
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Verb
- (slang) To be insane, irrational, or eccentric.
- 1871 July – 1873 February, Anthony Trollope, “The Major”, in The Eustace Diamonds. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], published 1872, OCLC 1332510 ↗, page 306 ↗, column 1:
- Richard, glorious in new livery, [...] went with his sad message, first to the church and then to the banqueting-hall in Albemarle Street. "Not any wedding?" said the head-waiter at the hotel. "I knew they was folks as would have a screw loose somewheres. [...]"
- 2010 July 16, Alessandra Stanley, "Television: Back to Work for ‘Mad Men’ ↗," New York Times (retrieved 16 June 2016):
- Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) would be just another irritating office brown-noser, a prep school Sammy Glick, except that he too has a screw loose and a mystical rapport with firearms.
- French: avoir un grain, ne pas tourner rond, avoir une case de vide, avoir une case en moins
- German: eine Schraube locker haben, nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben, einen Dachschaden haben, einen an der Klatsche haben
- Italian: essere svitato, mancare di qualche rotella
- Russian: ви́нтика в голове́ не хвата́ет
- Spanish: tener pájaros en la cabeza
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