have bats in the belfry
old-fashioned disapprovingDefinition
› to be silly and slightly crazy and behave in a confused wayOf unsound mindStupid and silly
(Definition of have bats in the belfry from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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