off one's trolley | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,humorous,idiomatic)Having gonemad;insane.1919, American Guild of Organists,American Organist, volume 2,page409:The Romance is the best part of the four movements. One is a bitoff one’s trolleyat such times and I should surely write a better Suite at this time after twenty years of sober reflection.1915–1981: Kenneth Burke [contrib.], Malcolm Cowley [contrib.], and Paul Jay (editor),The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1981,page 302(1988; Viking;→ISBN, 9780670813360)On the whole, bodily symptoms have at least the consolatory fact about them, that they replace mental symptoms, fears of goingoff one’s trolley; and I suppose that, if I got rid of all the physical symptoms, things would but have been cleared away for a new worry about mental ones?2006, Mike Ollerton,Getting the Buggers to Add Up,Continuum International Publishing Group,→ISBN,page164:Being slightlyoff one’s trolleyUppermost in my list of top four teaching behaviours is being ever-so-slightly crazy ... to keep students guessing whether or not I have lost my marbles, and being not quite so predictable.

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