| 单词 | to be a button short |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a button short P9. colloquial. one's buttons: one's mental faculties, wits, sanity. Used in various phrases, typically denoting (in negative contexts) an absence of rationality or diminishing intellectual powers, as not to have (got) all one's buttons (on), to have some of one's buttons off, to be losing one's buttons, etc. Also similarly to be a button short. Conversely to have all one's buttons (on): to be in full possession of one's mental faculties. ΘΚΠ 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 world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (intransitive)] to be one's own man (also woman, person)1556 to have all one's buttons (on)1890 1859 Always Ready xviii. 249 He's not a cadger, or a stuck-up looney; neither is he a button short, for he's all there. 1867 Family Herald 3 Aug. 216/1 What does that mean? That I've got a tile off—a screw loose? Not got all my buttons? 1890 Daily News 21 May 6/3 He is 83 years of age, but as we say hereabouts, has all his buttons on. 1892 Weekly Suppl. to Leeds Mercury 23 Jan. 7/4 In Wilsden, a person..lacking full mental capacities has ‘some of his buttons off’. 1911 F. Dumont Old New Hampsh. Home iii. 40 Tilly. Girl, I believe you've gone crazy since you left home. Muffins. Not me, aunty. I've got all my buttons. 1949 Billboard 9 Apr. 114/2 Critical friends..inferred Ferla didn't have all of his buttons about a year ago when he became involved in the rebuilding of Rocky Point Park. 1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose iv. i. 184 Any signs of, you know, failing? Still seem to have all his buttons? 2013 J. McBride Good Lord Bird iii. xxix. 369 The Old Man was losing his buttons. I weren't in the mood to say good-bye to him. < as lemmas |
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