rocks in one's head

English

Phrase

rocks in one's head

1. An inability to think clearly and rationally.
   • 2007, Don Woodland, Simon Bouda, Picking Up the Pieces:

     Fancy bringing all the chaplains together at six o'clock on a Friday night in the heart of Sydney. They've got rocks in their head.

   • 2009, Robert Arellano, Havana Lunar:

     Either that or it's the rocks in your head.

   • 2013, Alexander Logan, Two Women: Two Worlds, page 313:

     They must have rocks in their heads. But then they were young, one of them was only nineteen, and what nineteen year old wouldn't fancy a few virgins after a suicide bombing?

   • 2019, Virginia Biggar, Lynda Everman, Steven M. Glazer, Dementia-Friendly Worship, page 51:

     My mother always said I had rocks in my head, ever since I was a boy, perhaps the yoke of being an Irish American.