out of one's tree

out of one's tree

English

Prepositional phrase

out of one's tree

1. (slang) Crazy; unhinged; irrational.
   • 2003, Diane Chamberlain, Kiss River, Mira (2003), →ISBN, page 79:

     Clay had learned to bring a book with him when he took Henry shopping; otherwise, he would go out of his tree with boredom.

   • 2009, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse (2009), →ISBN, page 324:

     I, again jokingly finalized: that to believe her own hypothesis, she had to be out of her tree, […]

   • 2010, Helen Simpson, In-Flight Entertainment: Stories, Knopf (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     He was singing and sobbing and carrying on, out of his tree with alcohol, […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:out of one's tree.

Synonyms

• off one's tree, out of one's box, out of one's gourd, out of one's head, out of one's mind, out of one's skull, out there
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Antonyms

• in one's right mind
• See also Thesaurus:sane.