Meaning of screw loose | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of insanity or eccentricity.
   slang
2. A state of enmity or disagreement.
   archaic, slang

Examples

“I think there's a screw loose in that brain of hers!”

“I understand there's a screw loose between you two , so I've brought Morton that you may shake hands, and be comfortable together.”

“There is evidently a screw loose between us and some or other of the countries from which, according to royal speeches, we are everlastingly receiving assurances of love and amity.”

“There is a screw loose between the Austrians and French about Venice, which the latter wish to remain as a Republic, and they are also rather angry with Prussia, but I hope the French squadron at Trieste will not come to blows.”

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