off one's head

English

Prepositional phrase

off one's head (slang)

  1. Insane, crazy.
  2. Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.
    • 1881, William S. Gilbert (lyrics), Sir Arthur Sullivan (music), “The Magnet and the Churn”:
      The kettles they boiled with rage, 'tis said/While ev'ry nail went off its head...
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      When I had finished I went and saw poor Leo, who was quite off his head, and did not even know me.
  3. Under the influence of drugs.
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