Meaning of out to lunch | Babel Free

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”

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