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have bats in one's belfry

Inf. Fig. to be crazy. You must really have bats in your belfry if you think I'll put up with that kind of stuff. Pay no attention to her. She has bats in her belfry.

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have bats in the belfry

  (old-fashioned)

to be crazy Don't tell anyone else I said that or they'll think I've got bats in the belfry.

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bats in one's belfry, have

Be crazy or at least very eccentric, as in Sally thought her aunt's belief in ghosts indicated she had bats in her belfry. This term in effect likens the bat's seemingly erratic flight in the dark to ideas flying around in a person's head. [Early 1900s]

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have bats in one’s belfry

(...ˈbɛlfri)

tv. to be crazy. (see also bats. Have got can replace have.) Pay no attention to her. She has bats in her belfry.

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have bats in (one's) belfry

To behave in an eccentric, bizarre manner.

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