off one's chump
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
See chump (“the head”), and compare off one's head.
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Prepositional phrase ===
off one's chump
(British, Australia, colloquial) Crazy, insane.
1888, Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), A Sydney-Side Saxon, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607291,
‘ […] I′m not off my chump, no more than you are, and I haven't smelt spirits since last Christmas.’
1890, Catherine Martin, An Australian Girl, 2002, Margaret Ellen Allen (biographical information), Rosemary Campbell (introduction and notes; editor), University of Queensland Press, page 90,
It put him off his chump entirely. He went completely to the bad.