单词 | to need one's head examined |
释义 | > as lemmasto need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read) f. colloquial (originally U.S.). to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read) and variants: used to suggest that one's actions, opinions, etc., are irrational, wrong, or foolish. 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 1896 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 22 Jan. 5/4 When a young man becomes either too lazy or too rude to lift his hat to a lady he needs his head examined to see if it isn't internally injured. 1899 Boston Globe 6 June 11/2 (advt.) A working man who pays over $3 for a house lot in Weymouth..is wrong, and should have his head examined. 1907 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 13 Sept. 1/8 Sheridan..meant much the same thing as the man who says, ‘You ought to have your head read,’ but being Sheridan he expressed it better. 1966 J. Bingham Double Agent ii. 25 If you think these chaps know nuclear secrets..you want your head examined. 1974 R. Jeffery & J. Keeble Mine i. 3 Sometimes I think I ought to have my head checked. What was I thinking to come up and bother you. 2005 B. Keating & S. Keating Blood Sisters (2006) xvi. 305 ‘You need your head examined!’ He turned away and poured himself some tea. < as lemmas |
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