| 单词 | a screw loose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa screw loose a screw loose n. (also screw loose, †loose screw) colloquial (a) a mild eccentricity or mental disturbance in a person; something wrong in one's way of thinking; frequently in to have a screw loose; †(b) (esp. in earlier use) a significant weakness in an arrangement, situation, etc. (obsolete). [Probably after similar expressions in other Germanic languages, attested in Dutch (from the 17th cent.), in German (in widespread use in modern dialects), and in Danish (earliest in early modern Danish).] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] witlessc1000 fonda1400 brainless1434 doitedc1450 feeble-minded1534 half-witted1712 fatuous1773 a screw loose1810 losta1822 balmy1851 a shingle short1852 retardate1912 mental1927 subcultural1931 psychological1952 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > be mentally deficient [verb (intransitive)] a screw loose1810 not to have (got) all one's buttons (on)1859 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > a weakness leak1597 weakness1597 a screw loose1810 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > disordering > one who or that which > in an orderly system the devil in the horologe1519 a screw loose1810 1810 Sporting Mag. July 166/2 The others..had got a screw loose. 1821 Sporting Mag. New Ser. 7 192 A screw, it seems, has been loose between Neat and the Champion of England. 1833 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 21 In fact, a genius with a screw loose, as we used to say. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiii. 173 I see well enough there's a screw loose in your affairs. 1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xii. 110 There may be some little screw loose between him and the..step-daughter. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxiii. 128 Something crooked about Lizzie,—a screw loose, as people say. 1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 314 Who will put his finger upon the loose screw? 1928 C. Sandburg in Amer. Mercury Oct. 154 There was a screw loose somewhere in him, he had a kink and he was a Crank, he was nuts and belonged in a booby hatch. 1963 Times 1 Feb. 8/7 He asked Mr. Galbraith if when he came across a person who was ‘limited intellectually’ he normally referred to him as ‘having a screw loose’. 1977 Lancs. Life Nov. 63/1 An endearing little chap with a screw loose. 2014 Daily Rec. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 17 I think you have to have a screw loose even to go skiing on your holidays. < as lemmas |
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