tener pájaros en la cabeza

Language: es

1.
SpainLatin Americainformal
- To have birds in one's head; literally, to imagine birds inside one's head.
2.
SpainLatin Americainformalcolloquial
- To be foolish or to act in an unreasonable or silly way; to be crazy for doing something.
3.
SpainLatin Americainformalcolloquial
- To be flighty, absent-minded, or preoccupied with fanciful, impractical, or unrealistic ideas.

Examples:

ES: ¡Debo tener pájaros en la cabeza.. para estar tres años con él!
EN: I must have bats in the belfry to stay 3 years with him!
ES: Cómo no va a tener pájaros en la cabeza el chiquillo?
EN: How could there be no feathers in the boy's head?
EN: Well, how could he not have a head full of feathers?

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