few cards shy of a full deck
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a few cards shy of a full deck
- (idiomatic) mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- That guy might be a few cards shy of a full deck — he thinks that substitute sugar is really a government tracking system.
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- See Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
- See also Thesaurus:insane.
Antonyms
- play with a full deck
- See also Thesaurus:sane.