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Discover LudwigThe phrase "cuckoo about" is not a commonly used expression in written English.
It is possible that it is being used figuratively to describe someone who is acting crazy or irrational like a cuckoo bird. However, it is not a standard or widely recognized phrase. Example: She was cuckoo about her new boyfriend, constantly talking about him and neglecting her other responsibilities.
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Opens at Tate Britain on 27 July; tate.org.uk Eating out We're cuckoo about The Oak Room's enamel bird-print picnicware.
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Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform thinktank says "the British people are living in cloud cuckoo land" about the economic impact.
At the same time, their ministers have boasted, with all the regularity of a cuckoo clock, about how the number of British people in work is now at a record high.
In this nature, each cuckoo lays about 5 to 20 eggs; the numbers are the maximum and minimum numbers of eggs laid at a time.
The loud 'cuck-oo' notes travel through woods and over open country, a warning to rivals, but a message to females that a male cuckoo is about.
"He is living in cloud-cuckoo land about his captaincy ability.
"By and large," he says, "it's all about cuckoo clocks and chalets that all look the same.
"I think that somehow these people have become susceptible to bogeyman nightmares about cuckoo scientists run amok," said Arthur Caplan, professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
I also disagree with your quote about cuckoo clocks.Christian Kälin Partner Henley & Partners ZurichSIR – We should be wary of appointing Mormons to positions of high public office ("When the saints come marching in", March 5th).
Her one-woman show "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," about suicide and depression in Asian American women, allowed her to quit her side jobs but subjected her to an exhausting touring schedule.
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