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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
off one's rocker
- (slang) Crazy; insane.
He's off his rocker if he thinks he can tackle the whole thing alone.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC, page 86:“Bertie! Your manner is strange.”
“Your manner would be strange if you'd been sitting on the floor of Wilbert Cream's sleeping apartment with a chair round your neck, and Ma Cream had come in.”
“Golly! Did she?”
“In person.”
“What did you say?”
“I said I was looking for a mouse.”
“Couldn't you think of anything better than that?”
“No.”
“And how did it all come out in the end?”
“I melted away, leaving her plainly convinced that I was off my rocker.”
Usage notes
- A group is commonly qualified with a singular ("they're off their rocker") but sometimes also a plural ("they're off their rockers").
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