Citations:out of one's tree

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English citations of out of one's tree

Adjective: "(idiomatic) crazy; unhinged; irrational"[edit]

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  • 2003, Diane Chamberlain, Kiss River, Mira (2003), →ISBN, page 79:
    Clay had learned to bring a book with him when he took Henry shopping; otherwise, he would go out of his tree with boredom.
  • 2003, Claire Berlinski, Loose Lips, Random House (2003), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Iris seemed fond of Brad—she was clearly congratulating herself for at last having the maturity and self-respect to choose a man who treated her well—but I could tell that she was already bored out of her tree.
  • 2009, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse (2009), →ISBN, page 324:
    I, again jokingly finalized: that to believe her own hypothesis, she had to be out of her tree, []
  • 2010, Helen Simpson, In-Flight Entertainment: Stories, Knopf (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    He was singing and sobbing and carrying on, out of his tree with alcohol, []
  • 2013, Jim Wheeler, Journeys, Generations, and Cracked Eggs: Journeys, the Call of God, and the Miraculous, WestBow Press (2013), →ISBN, page 230:
    You see, while you're smiling it is hard to think any negative or questionable thoughts about this author or whether this guy with a fantastic egg story is out of his tree.