10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFF ONE'S TROLLEY»
Discover the use of
off one's trolley in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
off one's trolley and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Before they departed, the old trolleys contributed an item of enduring slang in the
expression to slip (off) one's trolley, 'to go crazy,' or to be off one's trolley, 'to be
crazy.' Stuart Flexner wrote that "the sight of [the motorman] getting out of the ...
... rocker Off his trolley Off in the upper story Off one's base Off one's bean Off
one's box Off one's chump Off one's head Off one's kerbase Off one's nut Off one's
onion Off one's rails Off one's rocker Off one's track Off one's trolley Off the beam
Off ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... off one's rocket; off one's trolley; out of one's head; out of one's skull; out of
one's tree; poggle; ravers; rock-happy; round the bend; round the twist; starkers;
stir-crazy; troppo; whacked out; yarra A mad person crazy; head case; loony;
mental; ...
John Ayto, John Simpson,
2010
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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
A variant form of the earlier off one's head/face recorded in 2002. off one's trolley
adj British deranged, unstable, crazy. Avariation on theoff one's block theme,
which has been popular in British speech since the 1970s. The original image ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... bonkers, dotty, cuckoo, cracked, loopy, loony, bananas, loco, dippy, screwy,
schizoid, touched, gaga, up the pole, off the wall, not all there, not right upstairs;
Brit. informal barmy, crackers, barking, barking mad, round the twist, off one's
trolley, ...
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Chambers English Thesaurus
... off one's nut, off one's rocker, off one's trolley, out of one's mind, possessed,
preposterous, psychotic, rabid, raging, raving, resentful, riotous, round the bend,
round the twist, screwball, screwy, senseless, unbalanced, uncontrolled,
unhinged, ...
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... irritated, keen, livid, loony, loopy, ludicrous, lunatic, madcap, mental, moon-
stricken, moon-struck, non compos mentis, nonsensical, nuts, nutty, off one's
chump, off one's head, off madden mail one's nut, off one's rocker, off one's trolley
, lurid .
Wordsworth, William,
1993
... SI. out of one's tree, RA off one's trolley, Brit. SI. off one's chump; All SI. nave
bats in one's belfry, have a few buttons missing, pave a few loose screws.
maniacal, hysterical, madding, Archaic, wood, delirious; frantic, frenzied, frenetic;
ranting, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale,
1978
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want to learn to fly a plane in a couple of hours, you're off your trolley] trooper to
swear like a trooper M SWEAR trot on the trot i (It has rained for six weeks on the
...
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New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form ...
... gonzo, meshugga, out to lunch, kooky, wacky, wacko, whacked out, dementoid,
gomer, loony tunes, bananas, off the wall, ape[shit], around the bend, off one's
trolley or rocker, freaky, bonkers; tetched, pixilated, bughouse; mental (Brit.).
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFF ONE'S TROLLEY»
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off one's trolley is used in the context of the following news items.
13 Board member, having no money, right, becomes dealer in …
(7); 17 Unbeatable rival seems in for a beating (7); 19 Staple food off one's trolley (7); 20 Sadomasochism dropped by unctuous host (4) ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Crossword roundup: trolleys and rockers
Its origins, though, are older, and it's cheering to see a Victorian piece of language – OFF ONE'S TROLLEY – finding a new life in Ayia Napa ... «The Guardian, Mar 14»
Off one's trolley
That is, backfired as in Waitrose being mentioned in thousands of media outlets and being the subject of millions of internet hits. «Herald Scotland, Sep 12»