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not right in the head
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.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.
“He’s not right in the head. He’s never been right. You don’t need a boy like that playing you.”
Are you not right in the head? he yells.
“That’ll be the son, I told you he’s not right in the head. Don’t look at it, Cecilia, darling.”
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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