Idiom
few cards shy of a full deck
Meaning
Mentally deranged; demented; insane.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He acts like he is a few cards shy of a full deck.”
“After hearing his strange theories about the moon, I suspect he is a few cards shy of a full deck.”
“The villagers whispered that the eccentric hermit living in the woods was a few cards shy of a full deck, given his habit of talking to the trees.”
Examples
simple
“He acts like he is a few cards shy of a full deck.”
contextual
“After hearing his strange theories about the moon, I suspect he is a few cards shy of a full deck.”
complex
“The villagers whispered that the eccentric hermit living in the woods was a few cards shy of a full deck, given his habit of talking to the trees.”
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