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Discover LudwigThe phrase "nut case" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used informally to describe someone who is considered eccentric or mentally unstable.
Example: "After hearing his wild conspiracy theories, I started to think he might be a bit of a nut case."
Alternatives: "basket case" or "loony tune".
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A Fruit & Nut case.
You're a nut case or whatever".
"It shows what a nut case I am.
Maybe some nut case comes up to buy.
They look at me like this little nut case".
The police had tagged me as a nut case.
Because you had a dad that was a nut case?" "I'm not understanding," Keller said.
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I'm too transfixed by the elegant fluting of a single coriander seed, by burr spikes like a Borgia's favorite gadget, or by the private silken folds inside a beech-nut case.
I thought you were some nut-case friend of my dad's.
Lay a two-hundred-per-cent tariff on Samsung products, pull our troops out, and let them deal with that nut-case hair ball across the border.
The overstressed, nut-case sports dad, screaming at his poor kid from the sidelines is a staple of the case against suburbia.
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