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off one's hinges en · ADP
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(idiomatic) Unstable or irrational; crazy.
Facing the business end of the large revolver was bad enough, but the man wielding the gun was off his hinges.
2012, George R. Appelt Jr., Shepherd's Fall, page 153:'She’s hysterical already,' he murmured gloomily. 'She'll fly off her hinges if you suggest it.'
1995, John Sherwood, Bones Gather No Moss, page 164:“Yeah, I’m okay,” she answers with Zen calm, as if she wasn’t completely off her hinges a minute ago.
2008, Debbie Reed Fisher, Swimming with the Sharks, page 196:
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