off one's hinges

prepositional phrase

Unstable or irrational; crazy.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase

alternative off one's hinge

  1. idiomaticUnstable or irrational; crazy.

    'She’s hysterical already,' he murmured gloomily. 'She'll fly off her hinges if you suggest it.'

    1995, John Sherwood, Bones Gather No Moss, page 164
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    “Yeah, I’m okay,” she answers with Zen calm, as if she wasn’t completely off her hinges a minute ago.

    2008, Debbie Reed Fisher, Swimming with the Sharks, page 196

    Facing the business end of the large revolver was bad enough, but the man wielding the gun was off his hinges.

    2012, George R. Appelt Jr., Shepherd's Fall, page 153
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