| 单词 | to get a rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get a rat b. chiefly Australian and New Zealand. to get a rat and variants: to be deranged; to be seized by wild notions. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 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 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 171/2 (American), ‘to have rats’, to have wild or eccentric fancies. 1898 G. T. Bell Coolgardie 51 They get fat fees for their reports, but oft times they get rats, When the ten-ounce reef a duffer proves and the mines are called `wild cats'. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vii. 84 The factory flat loudly asserted that Spats had ‘got a rat’. 1955 D. A. Stewart & N. Keesing Austral. Bush Ballads 240 The Boss has got a rat today: he's buckin' everywhere. 2002 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 Mar. 9 [Ratbag] derives from the now obsolete expression ‘to get a rat’ (or ‘rats’), meaning to have wild ideas. < as lemmas |
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