touched in the head

Idioms  

1. Also, touched. A little bit crazy, somewhat deranged, as in I think the war left him a little touched in the head. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Nobody knows what to make of the instant infant except for Dorothy, who goes along with this miraculous white nonsense because she's touched in the head.

From Salon

That set had contained three images, taken over successive days, of a bird’s corpse on the sidewalk, and he wondered briefly, not for the first time, if the Wright girl was a little touched in the head.

From Literature

At times “Fashion Climbing” can seem like the most guileless thing ever written and its author slightly touched in the head, in a kind and upbeat Forrest Gump sort of way.

From New York Times

It never fails that if I’m in a strange city that I’ll go into a bookstore and buy something, because I’m touched in the head or something.

From Washington Post

Some folks say Mrs. Brown’s touched in the head, but ’cept for scaring me in the woods at night she treats me real kind.

From Literature