Sentence examples for screw-loose from inspiring English sources

This is a toxic combination: a screw-loose leader ready to say anything, an unpopular party that wants to keep him from being exposed for what he is — even as the door swings wildly on whatever's left of its hinges — for fear of having its policies exposed for what they are.

They don't quite know why they do all this, since it's clear that Mud makes up stuff and lives by dreams and portents and magic, but he's the center of their secret life, their screw-loose mentor and romantic outlaw all in one.

German provocateur Eckhart Schmidt here deftly ditches the flavor-of-the-month new wave teenybopper angst angle of Christiane F. in favor of a wonderfully roiling, sordidly screw-loose psychosexual tension that would make even Brian De Palma blush.

David's got a screw loose".

Has the Screws got a screw loose?

There's some folks with a screw loose.

That guy McEnroe has got a screw loose".

If people aren't apprehensive about this, they've got a screw loose".

"He's got a screw loose, man," he says of manic serial-tweeter Joey Barton.

Concurrently, it gained a sense of eccentricity, as in an 1810 use of "having a screw loose".

"Everyone looked at me like I had a screw loose," he said, before likening himself to Howard Hughes.