"Out of his tree" (crazy)

[Jim Parish]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Goes back to the '60s in my experience.

Same here (although, since I was born in the late '50s, that doesn't
mean much). There was a classic Peanuts cartoon from that era, in
which Lucy is berating Linus for talking about the Great Pumpkin: "You
talk like someone who's fallen out of a tree! You're stark raving stupid!"

Jim Parish

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