out of one's mind
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /aʊt əv wʌnz maɪnd/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (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?
- (idiomatic) Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.
- When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry.
- Away from the focus of one's thoughts.
- Try to put the day's troubles out of your mind and relax.
Synonyms
[edit]- (crazy): off one's head, out of one's box, out of one's cotton-picking mind, out of one's gourd, out of one's head, out of one's skull, out of one's wits, out there
- See also Thesaurus:insane.
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “temporarily distressed”): in one's right mind
- See also Thesaurus:sane.
Related terms
[edit]- wrongminded
- (crazy, temporarily distressed): lose one's mind
Translations
[edit]insane
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