Largactil
/lɑːˈɡaktɪl
/noun
Trademark for chlorpromazine.I remember my mother grinding up tablets of Largactil (the major tranquilliser chlorpromazine) to put in his tea in the hope of dampening his florid auditory hallucinations....
- However, Healy also notes that chlorpromazine was initially named Largactil precisely because it covered a large range of nervous conditions.
- Yes, Chlorpromazine… Largactil but that kind of medication really is not appropriate for autism.
Origin
1950s: of unknown origin.
- not give a bugger
- not give a shit
- not give a stuff
- not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)
- not give (or care) a damn
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- not have a leg to stand on
- not have a penny to bless oneself with
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer
- not have a shot in one's locker
- not have a —— bone in one's body
- not have the faintest
- not have the foggiest (idea or notion)