| 单词 | not right in one's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot right in one's (also the) head b. Of a person: mentally healthy; sane; competent to think and act. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. (colloquial) in not right in one's (also the) head In early use with wit(s). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > [adjective] in (one's right) witc1000 wittyc1000 wisec1290 well-tempered1340 reasonablec1400 safe1402 perfectc1440 well in (also of) one's witsa1450 right in one's geara1500 well-advised1532 sensed1549 unmad1570 well-advised1585 rational1598 solid1606 in one's (right) senses1613 formala1616 of (in) disposing mind or memory1628 compos mentis1631 righta1638 well-hinged1649 well-balanced1652 spacked1673 clear-headed1709 sane1721 unfantastic1794 unmaddened1797 pas si bête1840 lucid1843 unfantastical1862 clothed and in one's right mind1873 right-minded1876 ungiddy1904 clear1950 a1638 R. Brownlow Rep. Diverse Cases: 2nd Pt. (1651) 260 If a man be not right in his Wits, the King is to have the Protection and Government of him. 1644 A. Petrie Chiliasto-mastix 5 Who being richt in his witt [etc.]. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §6 The World was not generated as Plants or Animals are; and who ever right in his wits asserted that it was? 1680 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 85 He was of a weak judgment, and not very right. 1743 tr. Horace Satires, Epist. & Art Poetry 187 When you strangle your Wife, and poison your Mother, are you right in the Head? 1790 Scotsman 22 Jan. 8 He was conseedered no that richt in the heed. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Richt He's quite richt now, he has come to his senses: No richt, insane. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 174 He's not right in his head. 1896 J. Hocking Mist on Moors ii We've got an old aunt of mine in the carriage who isn't exactly right. 1915 D. J. Beattie Oor Gate-en' 138 The hale gate-en' is wonderin', If yer mither's verra richt. 1959 A. Wesker Roots 25 Then you're not right in the head then. 1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) iii. 81 Something had happened when he was a young man and he had never been right since. 2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) ii. 61 The stock-keepers in particular made no secret of the fact that I had, as they put it, ‘drawn the short straw’, talking of Mr Pierce as ‘a strange one’ and ‘not right in his head’. < as lemmas |
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