"Out of his tree" (crazy)

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OUT OF HIS TREE-28,800 Google hits
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_Facing down a culture where they talk like  crazies_
(http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn261.html)
Chicago Sun-Times, United  States -  <NOBR>Mar 2
... insanity on the  grounds that (I'm no Islamic jurist so I'm paraphrasing
here) anyone who  converts from Islam to Christianity must ipso facto be out
of  his tree ...
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I saw this in Mark Steyn's column (reprinted in the New York Sun).  HDAS has
1942 for the similar "out of town."
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I don't have a tree. I never even had a Christmas  tree.
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(OED)
1996 D. F.  WALLACE Infinite Jest 253, I even tried  telling him Himself was
miserable and pancreatitic and out of his tree half the time by  then.
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_The return of net.bizarre._
(http://groups.google.com/group/net.news.group/browse_thread/thread/9af49d07cb4930a2/b6e05403747af647?lnk=st&q="out+of+his+tree
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...  Bryan Gumball? Is he out of his tree? -- Jim  Crandell, CS Dept., The
University
of Texas at Austin  {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell
_net.news.group_ (http://groups.google.com/group/net.news.group?lnk=sg&hl=en)
 - Jul  31 1985, 9:08 pm by Jim Crandell - 8 messages - 8 authors

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