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Meaning of out to lunch | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Away eating lunch or for a midday break; especially, away from work or a job.
    not-comparable
  2. Clueless, inattentive, or careless.
    idiomatic, informal, not-comparable

Examples

“She's out to lunch right now, but you may leave⟳ her a note⟳.”
“After he drove with his turn⟳ signal on for five miles, I was pretty sure he was out to lunch.”
“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”
“But then along came this biter / And he was so out of touch⟳ / So completely self indulgent / Just so out to lunch”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

out-and-back out-and-home out-and-out out-college out-front out-of-band

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