off one's hinges

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off one's hinges

  1. (idiomatic) Unstable or irrational; crazy.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
    • 1995, John Sherwood, Bones Gather No Moss‎, page 164:
      'She’s hysterical already,' he murmured gloomily. 'She'll fly off her hinges if you suggest it.'
    • 2008, Debbie Reed Fisher, Swimming with the Sharks‎, page 196:
      “Yeah, I’m okay,” she answers with Zen calm, as if she wasn’t completely off her hinges a minute ago.
    • 2012, George R. Appelt Jr., Shepherd's Fall‎, page 153:
      Facing the business end of the large revolver was bad enough, but the man wielding the gun was off his hinges.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:off one's hinges.
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