nutty as a fruitcake
Definitions
Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty.
colloquial, not-comparable
Equivalents
Ελληνικάθεότρελος
Examples
“... and assuming that the defendant's Aunt Jane, in Wilkes-Barre, was as nutty as a fruitcake, and his grandfather, in Oskaloosa, had to wear⟳ cotton in his ears ...”
“2003, William Safire / NY Times News Service, "Fruitcake: A word that gets the US Congress to call⟳ the cops", Taipei Times, 10 Aug, p. 9, Eugene O'Neill, in his 1914 play⟳, The Movie Man, coined a memorable simile: "We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here."”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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