Foolish Phrases

Phrases

• As crazy as a loon
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• As mad as a hatter
• As mad as a march hare
• As mad as a wet hen
• As thick as two short planks
• As weak as gnat's piss
• Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
• Away with the fairies
• Back the wrong horse
• Barking mad
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Boiling mad
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Brain dead
• Crazy Eddie (Nickname of shopkeeper Eddie Antar)
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Crazy Legs (Nickname of American football player Elroy Hirsch)
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Crazy fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Crazy in Love (Beyonce with Jay-Z song)
• Cut a hog
• Dead from the neck up
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
• Don't get mad get even
• Fighting mad
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• From the wrong side of the tracks
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Get stupid
• Go down the wrong way
• Go weak at the knees
• Go wrong
• Goof around
• Hare brained
• Hit by the stupid stick
• Hopping mad
• How wrong can you be?
• I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! (line from the movie Network)
• I'm with stupid
• Idiot Wind (Bob Dylan song)
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• In the wrong
• It went down the wrong way
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• It's so simple (Polaroid advertising slogan)
• It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
• Jerk around
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Keep it simple stupid
• Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Laugh yourself silly
• Life's simple pleasures
• Like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
• Lost the plot
• Lost your marbles
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Gene Hatcher)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Greg Maddux)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Mark Madsen)
• Mad Max (Nickname of Jason Maxiell)
• Mad Max (Nickname of Vernon Maxwell)
• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
• Mad for it
• Mad house
• Mad money
• Mad, bad and dangerous to know
• Make an ass of yourself
• Makes sensible buying simple (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)

• More fool you
• My country right or wrong
• Not all there
• Not dealing from a full deck
• Not playing with a full deck
• Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
• Not the full shilling
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• On the wrong foot
• On the wrong side of the tracks
• Out to lunch
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Pig ignorant
• Play silly buggers
• Political correctness gone mad
• Power mad
• Pure and simple
• Put a foot wrong
• Rub up the wrong way
• Scared silly
• Shit for brains
• Silly Billy
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Putty
• Silly Symphony
• Silly ass
• Silly bint
• Silly money
• Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids (Trix chocolate advertising slogan)
• Silly sausage
• Silly season
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Simple life
• Simple yet effective
• Soft in the head
• Somethin' Stupid (Frank Sinatra song)
• Stark raving mad
• Stark staring mad
• Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon song)
• Stir crazy
• Stupid is as stupid does
• Terminally stupid
• The Crazy Gang (Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club)
• The Mad Bomber (Nickname of Daryle Lamonica)
• The Mad Hungarian (Nickname of Al Hrabosky)
• The Mad March Hare
• The Mad Monk (Nickname of Rasputin)
• The Mad Scientist (Nickname of Mike Leach)
• The Mad Stork (Nickname of Ted Hendricks)
• The law is an ass
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The right place at the wrong time
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Two bricks short of a load
• Two sandwiches short of a picnic
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Waste of space
• We make it simple (Honda advertising slogan)
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
• Wrong side of the blanket
• Wrong side of the tracks
• Wrong, with a capital R
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
• You don't have to be silly to drink TK, but it helps! (TK minerals advertising slogan)
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)