单词 | off one's top |
释义 | > as lemmasoff one's top m. colloquial (chiefly Australian). off one's top: out of one's mind, insane, crazy.Cf. off one's head at head n.1 Phrases 1h, off one's nut at nut n.1 12b, off one's trolley at trolley n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 1899 Laverton (W. Austral.) Mercury 23 Sept. It is a wonder that Great Britain doesn't take the old Dutch clam [sc. Paul Kruger] by the coat-tails and wipe the floor of the Transvaal with him... He is evidently off his top. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) vi. 48 'E's fair orf 'is top wiv love. 1938 Northam (W. Australia) Advertiser 14 May 5/4 Dalton told the Magistrate that whenever he got drink he ‘went off his top’. 2020 @milakhano 23 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Oct. 2021) Tried to explain to dad how books make me happy; safe to say he prolly thinks I'm off my top. < as lemmas |
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