not right in the head

Mentally unsound, as in Physically, she's quite healthy for ninety, but we suspect she's not right in the head. This usage was first recorded as right in his wits in 1662.

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I think a lot of us don't know, when we're at the beginning of feeling not right in the head, what is going to be involved.

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“He’s not right in the head. He’s never been right. You don’t need a boy like that playing you.”

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Are you not right in the head? he yells.

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“That’ll be the son, I told you he’s not right in the head. Don’t look at it, Cecilia, darling.”

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�� do you mean he’s not right in the head?

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