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have a screw loose

verb

Definitions

  1. To be insane, irrational, or eccentric.

    • "You know he really has got a screw loose in his head somewheres, an' there ain't any one but what says he's the town fool, all right."
    • Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) would be just another irritating office brown-noser, a prep school Sammy Glick, except that he too has a screw loose and a mystical rapport with firearms.

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