have a screw loose screw
Meaning: To be harmlessly crazy.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: The Absurd
More idioms — The Absurd
- shot in the dark — A guess, often wild or based on little information.
- sleep like a log — To sleep so soundly that noise doesn't wake the person.
- snowball's chance in hell — No chance at all.
- sow one's wild oats — To do foolish or wild things, usually as a youth.
- speak of the devil — An expression used when someone who is being talked about has just appeared.
- strange bedfellows — People or things that one does not normally expect to find together.
More English idioms
- second-guess — To dispute or try to understand someone's reason for doing something.
- second-rate — Of inferior quality; not the best.
- have second thoughts — To begin to have doubts; to question and reexamine a decision.
- see red — To get angry.
- see something through — To finish something one has started.
- see the light — To understand something clearly.
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