Idiom
toys in the attic
Meaning
Insanity or craziness.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He acts like he has toys in the attic.”
“When he started talking to his plants for hours, his neighbors wondered if he had toys in the attic.”
“The eccentric inventor lived in total isolation, leading the local villagers to whisper that he clearly had toys in the attic.”
Examples
simple
“He acts like he has toys in the attic.”
contextual
“When he started talking to his plants for hours, his neighbors wondered if he had toys in the attic.”
complex
“The eccentric inventor lived in total isolation, leading the local villagers to whisper that he clearly had toys in the attic.”
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