out of one's tree

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Prepositional phrase

out of one's tree

1. (slang) Crazy; unhinged; irrational.
   • 1999, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:

     "'You outta your tree?' yelped Stan.'Choo say [Voldemort's] name for?'"

   • 2003, Diane Chamberlain, Kiss River, Mira, →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.

   • 2009, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse, →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^[1], Knopf, →ISBN:

     He was singing and sobbing and carrying on, out of his tree with alcohol, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:out of one's tree.

Synonyms

• off one's tree, out of one's box, out of one's gourd, out of one's head, out of one's mind, out of one's skull, out there
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Antonyms

• in one's right mind
• See also Thesaurus:sane.