单词 | to have bugs |
释义 | > as lemmasto have bugs (in one’s head or brain) P3. U.S. slang. to have bugs (in one’s head or brain): to be mad or mentally unstable. Cf. bugs adj. 1. ΚΠ 1903 ‘O. Henry’ in McClure's Mag. July 329/1 Poor Billy. He's got bugs. Sitting on ice, and calling his best friends pseudonyms. 1914 J. Hawthorne Subterranean Brotherhood xiii. 247 Whether the beetle was alive and got away, or whether the prisoner himself had ‘bugs’, as the slang is, at any rate the examiners reported no beetle. 1962 H. F. Searles in Jrnl. Amer. Psychoanalytic Assoc. 10 30 It was only later on in her therapy that she became able to realize that she, in a figurative sense, ‘was “bugs”’, or ‘had bugs in her head’, so to speak. 1996 C. Emery Dangerous Games iv. 55 The man has bugs in his brain! He can't even comb his hair. < as lemmas |
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