Английские идиомы - только важные (6)

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off your head

If you say that someone is off their head or out of their head, you mean that they are very strange, foolish, or dangerous. [BRITISH, INFORMAL]

It's like working in a war zone. You must be off your head to live in that area.

on the tip of your tongue

1. If a remark or question is on the tip of your tongue, you want to say it, but stop yourself.

It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him he'd have to ask Charlie. But I said nothing.

2. If something such as a word, answer, or name is on the tip of your tongue, you know it and can almost remember it, but not quite.

I know this, no, no, don't tell me ... oh, it's on the tip of my tongue!

out of your mind

1. If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are crazy or stupid. [INFORMAL]

You spent five hundred pounds on a jacket! Are you out of your mind?

2. If you are out of your mind with worry, grief, fear, etc., you are extremely worried, sad, afraid, etc.

She's out of her mind with worry; her husband left the hotel yesterday and hasn't been seen since.

Note: You can also say that someone is going out of their mind .

I was so sure that was what she said. Sometimes I wonder if I'm going out of my mind.

We have a lot of problems in our family. I'm going out of my mind with the worry of it all.

rack your brain

If you rack your brain, you think very hard about something or try very hard to remember it.

They asked me for fresh ideas, so I racked my brain, but couldn't come up with anything.

Note: You can also say rack your brains.

Alma racked her brains for something to say.

Note: The old-fashioned spelling wrack is occasionally used instead of rack in this expression. Bob was wracking his brain, trying to think where he had seen the man before.

ring a bell

If something rings a bell, it is slightly familiar to you and you know you have heard it before, but you do not remember it fully.

The name rings a bell but I can't think where I've heard it.

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