with a loose screw



with a loose screw

Having or characterized by silliness, eccentricity, craziness, or mental instability. There's some guy with a loose screw standing on the corner yelling obscenities at passersby. I have this strange fear that I'm going to turn into a lonely old bachelor with a loose screw when I get old.
See also: loose, screw

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
AlunA-leen, A-linWelsh
Jimmujeem-moo (Japanese)Far Eastern Mythology
Dervla-Irish
Espen-Norwegian, Danish
Dan (2)DAN (English), DAHN (Romanian, Czech, Swedish)English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Nadejdanah-DYEZH-dah (Russian)Russian, Bulgarian