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As
crazy
as a loon
As dumb as a box of rocks
As
mad
as a bear with a sore head
As
mad
as a hatter
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As
mad
as a march hare
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As
mad
as a wet hen
As thick as two short planks
As
weak
as gnat's piss
Ask a
silly
question and you'll get a
silly
answer
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Away with the fairies
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Back the
wrong
horse
Barking
mad
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Barking up the
wrong
tree
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Boiling
mad
Born on the
wrong
side of the blanket
Born on the
wrong
side of the tracks
Brain dead
Crazy
Eddie ( Nickname of shopkeeper Eddie Antar )
Crazy
Gun Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
Crazy
Legs ( Nickname of American football player Elroy Hirsch )
Crazy
Little Thing Called Love ( Queen song )
Crazy
fool ( A catchphrase from The A-Team )
Crazy
in Love ( Beyonce with Jay-Z song )
Cut a hog
Dead from the neck up
Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
Don't get
mad
get even
Fighting
mad
Fool's gold ( a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold )
From the
wrong
side of the tracks
Get hold of the
wrong
end of the stick
Get off on the
wrong
foot
Get out of the
wrong
side of the bed
Get
stupid
Go down the
wrong
way
Go
weak
at the knees
Go
wrong
Goof around
Hare brained
Hit by the
stupid
stick
Hopping
mad
How
wrong
can you be?
I'm as
mad
as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! ( line from the movie Network )
I'm with
stupid
Idiot Wind ( Bob Dylan song )
If anything can go wrong, it will
If this is
wrong
I don't want to be right
In the
wrong
It went down the
wrong
way
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for gone
wrong
)
It's so
simple
( Polaroid advertising slogan )
It's the economy
stupid
( Political slogan )
Jerk around
Jump to the
wrong
conclusion
Keep it
simple
stupid
Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
Laugh on the
wrong
side of your face
Laugh yourself
silly
Life's
simple
pleasures
Like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
Lost the plot
Lost your marbles
Mad
Dog ( Nickname of Gene Hatcher )
Mad
Dog ( Nickname of Greg Maddux )
Mad
Dog ( Nickname of Mark Madsen )
Mad
Max ( Nickname of Jason Maxiell )
Mad
Max ( Nickname of Vernon Maxwell )
Mad
dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
Mad
for it
Mad
house
Mad
money
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Make an ass of yourself
Makes sensible buying
simple
( Access Credit Card advertising slogan )
More fool you
My country right or
wrong
Not all there
Not dealing from a full deck
Not playing with a full deck
Not that there's anything
wrong
with that ( A catchphrase from Seinfeld )
Not the full shilling
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
On the
wrong
foot
On the
wrong
side of the tracks
Out to lunch
Paint yourself into a corner
Penny wise, pound foolish
Pig ignorant
Play
silly
buggers
Political correctness gone
mad
Power
mad
Pure and
simple
Put a foot
wrong
Rub up the
wrong
way
Scared
silly
Shit for brains
Silly
Billy
Silly
Mid Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly
Mid On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly
Point ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly
Putty
Silly
Symphony
Silly
ass
Silly
bint
Silly
money
Silly
rabbit, Trix are for kids ( Trix chocolate advertising slogan )
Silly
sausage
Silly
season
Silver bullet ( a
simple
and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem )
Simple
Simon met a pieman going to the fair ( line from nursery rhyme )
Simple
life
Simple
yet effective
Soft in the head
Somethin'
Stupid
( Frank Sinatra song )
Stark raving
mad
Stark staring
mad
Still
Crazy
After All These Years ( Paul Simon song )
Stir
crazy
Stupid
is as
stupid
does
Terminally
stupid
The
Crazy
Gang ( Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club )
The
Mad
Bomber ( Nickname of Daryle Lamonica )
The
Mad
Hungarian ( Nickname of Al Hrabosky )
The
Mad
March Hare
The
Mad
Monk ( Nickname of Rasputin )
The
Mad
Scientist ( Nickname of Mike Leach )
The
Mad
Stork ( Nickname of Ted Hendricks )
The law is an ass
The lights are on but there's no one at home
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still ( The Beatles song lyric )
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably
stupid
( Jane Austen quotation )
The right place at the
wrong
time
The spirit is willing but the flesh is
weak
The truth is rarely pure and never
simple
( Oscar Wilde quotation )
To call you
stupid
would be an insult to
stupid
people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
Two bricks short of a load
Two sandwiches short of a picnic
Very interesting, but
stupid
( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Waste of space
We make it
simple
( Honda advertising slogan )
What's
wrong
with this picture?
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him
Wrong
)
Wrong
Way Corrigan ( Nickname of Douglas Corrigan )
Wrong
side of the blanket
Wrong
side of the tracks
Wrong, with a capital R
Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and
weak
in the head
You don't have to be
mad
to work here, but it helps
You don't have to be
silly
to drink TK, but it helps! ( TK minerals advertising slogan )
You
stupid
boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )