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not right in the head



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Idioms and Phrases

Mentally unsound, as in Physically, she's quite healthy for ninety, but we suspect she's not right in the head . This usage was first recorded as right in his wits in 1662.
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Example Sentences

I think a lot of us don't know, when we're at the beginning of feeling not right in the head, what is going to be involved.

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“He’s not right in the head. He’s never been right. You don’t need a boy like that playing you.”

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Are you not right in the head? he yells.

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“That’ll be the son, I told you he’s not right in the head. Don’t look at it, Cecilia, darling.”

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What do you mean he’s not right in the head?

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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