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View synonyms for nutty as a fruitcake

nutty as a fruitcake



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Crazy, idiotic, as in Mary's nutty as a fruitcake if she thinks she can get away with that . The adjective nutty meaning “insane” was first recorded in 1821; the similarity to fruitcake , which literally contains nuts as well as fruit, was first recorded in 1935.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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