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the full shilling en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK, in the negative, no-plural) In control of one's mental faculties; sane; all there.
It served her well, as her husband Bill, a small, quiet man, sustained shell-shock in the war and although pleasant, was not the full shilling. Whenever he wandered over to me to start a conversation I would always feel very uncomfortable.
2006, Chris Sullivan, Broad Soldiers: Tom Grove Goes Naked, page 39:She shook her head, sighing deeply. 'There are times when I wonder is he the full shilling at all?[…]
2008, Geraldine O'Neill, Tara's Destiny:
Synonyms
the full quid · the full ticket