have a screw loose
informalDefinition
› If you say that someone has a screw loose, you mean that they behave in a strange way and seem slightly mentally ill.Of unsound mindStupid and silly
(Definition of have a screw loose from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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