out of one's mind

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  • IPA(key): /aʊt əv wʌnz maɪnd/
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out of one's mind

  1. (idiomatic) Insane, crazy.
    You're out of your mind if you think you can jump that far.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head?
  2. (idiomatic) Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.
    When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry.
  3. Away from the focus of one's thoughts.
    Try to put the day's troubles out of your mind and relax.

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