"Out of his tree" (crazy)

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Back to the '50s at least and current with "'He, She or They got toys (in
the head occasionally added but always implied)."

They were both in use when I was in high school.

Page Stephens

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> Goes back to the '60s in my experience.
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>   JL
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> OUT OF HIS TREE-28,800 Google hits
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> ...
> (GOOGLE NEWS)
> ...
> _Facing down a culture where they talk like crazies_
> (http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn261.html)
> Chicago Sun-Times, United States - 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 ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> I saw this in Mark Steyn's column (reprinted in the New York Sun). HDAS
has
> 1942 for the similar "out of town."
> ...
> I don't have a tree. I never even had a Christmas tree.
> ...
> ...
> ...
> (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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> (GOOGLE GROUPS)
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> _The return of net.bizarre._
>
(http://groups.google.com/group/net.news.group/browse_thread/thread/9af49d07
cb4930a2/b6e05403747af647?lnk=st&q="out+of+his+tree
> "&rnum=208&hl=en#b6e05403747af647)
> ... 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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