one brick short of a full load

English

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Adjective

one brick short of a full load (not comparable)

1. (slang) Not mentally sound; insane.

   I feel fine today, but that gentleman conversing with the house plant there may be one brick short of a full load.

2. (idiomatic) Stupid.

   You have to be one brick short of a full load to think that '7' is a letter in the alphabet.

Synonyms

• See Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y

Translations

not mentally sound; insane

• Danish: har en skrue løs
• Dutch: er zit een schroefje los (have a screw loose), ze niet alle vijf op een rijtje hebben (to not have all five in a row)
• Finnish: joku ruuvi löysällä
• French: ne pas avoir toute sa tête (fr)
• German: eine Schraube locker haben (de), nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben (de), einen Dachschaden haben (de)
• Polish: mieć nie po kolei w głowie (pl) impf
• Russian: ба́шню снесло́ (bášnju snesló) (the tower (i.e. the head) is blown away), без царя́ в голове́ (ru) (bez carjá v golové) (without a tsar (king) in the head), ви́нтика в голове́ не хвата́ет (víntika v golové ne xvatájet) (head is one bolt short), котело́к не ва́рит (ru) (kotelók ne várit) (the pot doesn't boil), кры́ша пое́хала (ru) (krýša pojéxala) (roof slid away), не все до́ма (ru) (ne vse dóma) (not everyone at home)
• Swedish: ha en skruv lös (sv) (have a loose screw)