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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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