OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 38191

have a screw loose

Meanings (ES + gloss)
faltarle un tornillo • tener pájaros en la cabeza • tener un tornillo zafado
To be insane, irrational, or eccentric.
"You know he really has got a screw loose in his head somewheres, an' there ain't any one but what says he's the town fool, all right."
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 a…
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