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• off with the fairies

Adjective

away with the fairies ‎(not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Not all there; slightly crazy.
   • 2000, Peter Watt, Cry of the Curlew,

     Now, I know the story is away with the fairies, but he produces a body and I take him down to the station to talk to the detectives.

   • 2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible,

     That was so ridiculous I laughed. A smile would crack Alison's poetic persona so she looked serious. She put her thin hand to her cheek like a lady writer in a photograph with eyes that could penetrate surfaces. She was certainly away with the fairies.

   • 2005, Ben Wright and Michael Patrick Shiels Good Bounces and Bad Lies,

     Hobday was wild, mad, and totally away with the fairies.

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