nutty as a fruitcake

And maybe, Kyle thought, you're just nutty as a fruitcake.

Pandora - 1 month 12 days ago Pretty lady, nutty as a fruitcake though.

It is derived from the expression "nutty as a fruitcake", which was first recorded in 1935.

This man Graves is as nutty as a fruitcake factory.

"The feeling is, 'Well, we're not nutty as a fruitcake, so it couldn't have done us much harm,"' he said.

"They also say I'm nutty as a fruitcake."

'You probably think I am just as nutty as a fruitcake.'

It can be deemed 'nutty as a fruitcake' to risk bankruptcy borrowing money when most of that is spent abroad.

He died in jail - "nutty as a fruitcake," as a gangland visitor reported.

Nutty as a fruitcake!

The only one of them that has any guts is that Colonel Gaddafi and he's nutty as a fruitcake.

Patas en la cabeza (Nutty As a Fruitcake, 1985)

There are times when I think he's nutty as a fruitcake, but he is always very selfpossessed and seems to always know exactly what he is doing.

"People told me I was nutty as a fruitcake, but listen, it got onto television, it was a four-hour mini-series, 11 million people watched it.

Both Collin Street and Claxton are Southern companies with access to cheap nuts, for which the expression "nutty as a fruitcake" was derived in 1935.

Our leader's nutty as a fruitcake, if you didn't guess, and he's surrounded himself with other nuts... crackpots, university rejects, oddballs and screwballs."

'Crazy as a loon, nutty as a fruitcake, two wheels off the road, out to lunch, playing without a full deck - any of those ring a bell?

In the United States, however, both fruit and fruitcake are seen as negative with fruitcake likely originating from "nutty as a fruitcake" (a crazy person).

In the mid-1930's, the simile nutty as a fruitcake appeared, and was used by a visitor to Al Capone in prison to sadly describe the gangster's mental decline.

Ms. Resnick married briefly, then married again to a Lebanese man Mr. Resnick described as "a professional heir that was nutty as a fruitcake."

Familiar doubts about Grandera's temperament resurfaced- one correspondent referred to him as being "nutty as a fruitcake"- as he finished a well-beaten fourth to Moon Ballad.

Then, Eugene O'Neill, in his 1914 play, "The Movie Man," coined a memorable simile: "We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here."

156 OUTPOST IN SPACE "Or else," said Bud, "he's nutty as a fruitcake!"

Ungainly, bespectacled, paranoid, quick-tempered, she is, according to her neighbors, "nutty as a fruitcake," a girl "as odd as they come, poor thing, muttering to herself and chasing little kids if they so much as looked at her."

A mob of his Chicago followers pointed out that their hero, Scarface Al, died of cardiac arrest in 1947 at his Palm Island, Fla., home after being released from jail (but - as reported accurately here - nutty as a fruitcake).