touched in the head

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“So them Dillard Early boys are all a little touched in the head, seems. Sooner or later. About the time they decide to mess with serpents.”

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