单词 | bees in the head or the brains |
释义 | > as lemmasbees in the head or the brains a. To have bees in the head or the brains, a bee in one's bonnet: i.e. a fantasy, an eccentric whim, a craze on some point, a ‘screw loose.’ (Cf. maggot n.1 2a, and German Grille.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > be slightly mad > eccentric or cranky bees in the head or the brains1553 fanaticize1715 to get a rat1890 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados viii. Prol. 120 Quhat berne be thou in bed, with hede full of beis? a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. C.ij Who so hath suche bees as your maister in hys head. 1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 74 Which comes from brains which have a bee. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (ed. 9) II. 119 But thy wild bees I canna please. 1845 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 124/2 John Hunter, notwithstanding he had a bee in his bonnet, was really a great man. < as lemmas |
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