not all there

not all there
(of a person) not fully alert and functioning

he's not all there. Give him a couple of days to readjust

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not all there
informal
— used to describe a person who is somewhat strange or stupid

Her aunt is very sweet but not all there (mentally).

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not all ˈthere idiom
(informal) not very intelligent, especially because of mental illness
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  • not all there —    If someone isn t all there, they are a little bit stupid or crazy.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    Someone who is not all there behaves strangely at times, or seems a bit odd.     Our new neighbour wears a hat and coat even in summer;… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • not all there — {adj. phr.} Not completely alert mentally; absentminded; not together. * /Bill is a wonderful guy but he is just not all there./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • not all there — {adj. phr.} Not completely alert mentally; absentminded; not together. * /Bill is a wonderful guy but he is just not all there./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • not\ all\ there — adj. phr. Not completely alert mentally; absentminded; not together. Bill is a wonderful guy but he is just not all there …   Словарь американских идиом

  • not all there — retarded, slow to learn, one brick short...    Sometimes Vincent acts kind of strange like he s not all there …   English idioms

  • not all there —    stupid or confused    It describes a mental state, not that of an amputee:     That poor creature who s not quite all there. (Christie, 1940)    Atypically, all there means keenly intelligent …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • not all there — not sane, not of sound mind, not thinking clearly …   English contemporary dictionary

  • not all there — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, arrested, babbling, backward, bereft of reason, blithering, brainsick, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • not all there — adjective mentally incompetent; of low intelligence; absentminded …   Wiktionary

  • all there — or[all here] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Understanding well; thinking clearly; not crazy. Usually used in negative sentences, * /Joe acted queerly and talked wildly, so we thought he was not all there./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • all there — or[all here] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Understanding well; thinking clearly; not crazy. Usually used in negative sentences, * /Joe acted queerly and talked wildly, so we thought he was not all there./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

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