HAVE BATS IN THE BELFRY

Meaning of HAVE BATS IN THE BELFRY in English

phrasal

: to be foolish, eccentric, or insane

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

HAVE BATS IN THE BELFRY — informal be eccentric or mad. → bat around/about
Concise Oxford English vocab
HAVE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BELFRY — cloch-turre, clochiere
English interlingue dictionary
BELFRY — noun (plural belfries) see: bury Date: 15th century a bell tower, a room or framework for enclosing a bell, head …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BATS — adjective Date: 1919 batty 2
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BELFRY — Bell tower, either freestanding or attached to another structure. More particularly it refers to the room, usually at the top …
Английский словарь Британика
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
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HAVE — I. (|)hav, (|)hev; as an auxiliary “ or _(h)əv or after a vowel v; before “to” usually |haf or |hef …
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BATS — I. plural of bat present third singular of bat II. ˈbats adjective Etymology: by alteration slang : batty 2 nothing …
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BELFRY — ˈbelfrē, -ri noun ( -es ) Etymology: Middle English belfray tower, bell tower, alteration (influenced by Middle English belle bell …
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BELFRY — (n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.
Английский словарь Webster
BELFRY — (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret …
Английский словарь Webster
BELFRY — (n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
Английский словарь Webster
BELFRY — (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Английский словарь Webster
BELFRY — ( n. ) The framing on which a bell is suspended.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BELFRY — ( n. ) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BELFRY — ( n. ) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BELFRY — ( n. ) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HAVE — /hav/ ; unstressed /heuhv, euhv/ ; for 26 usually /haf/ , v. and auxiliary v., pres. sing. 1st pers. have …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BELFRY — /bel"free/ , n. , pl. belfries . 1. a bell tower, either attached to a church or other building or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BATS — /bats/ , adj. Slang. insane; crazy: He's gone bats. [ 1915-20; see BAT 2 , -S 3 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BELFRY — n. bell tower of a church; room where bells are hung; (Slang) mind; head
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BATS — adj. crazy, nuts (Slang)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BELFRY — noun ( plural belfries ) Etymology: Middle English belfrey, berfrey, bell tower, siege tower, from Anglo-French * berfrei, *belfrei, of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BATS — adjective Date: 1919 : batty 2
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BELFRY — noun the framing on which a bell is suspended. 2. belfry ·noun a movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes …
Webster English vocab
BELFRY — ■ noun ( plural belfries ) the place in a bell tower or steeple in which bells are housed. Origin …
Concise Oxford English vocab
BATS — ■ adjective informal, dated (of a person) mad. Origin early 20th cent.: from the phr. have ~ in the belfry …
Concise Oxford English vocab
BELFRY — [bel.fry] n, pl belfries [ME belfrey, alter. of berfrey, fr. MF berfrei bell tower, siege tower, of Gmc origin (akin …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BATS — [bats] adj (1919): batty 2.
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BELFRY — bell tower, either attached to a structure or freestanding. More specifically, it is the section of such a tower where …
Britannica English vocabulary
BELFRY — belf|ry BrE AmE ˈbelf |ri ▷ belf|ries riz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BATS — bats BrE AmE bæts
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HAVE
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BELFRY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 a bell tower or steeple housing bells, esp. forming part of a church. 2 a space …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BATS — predic.adj. sl. crazy. [f. phr. (have) bats in the belfry: see BAT(2)]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BELFRY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 a bell tower or steeple housing bells, esp. forming part of a church. 2 a space …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BATS — predic.adj. sl. crazy. [ f. phr. (have) bats in the belfry: see BAT(2) ]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BELFRY — n. (pl. -ies) 1. a bell tower or steeple housing bells, esp. forming part of a church. 2 a space …
Oxford English vocab
BATS — predic.adj. sl. crazy. Etymology: f. phr. (have) bats in the belfry: see BAT(2)
Oxford English vocab
HAVE
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BELFRY — ( belfries) The belfry of a church is the top part of its tower, where the bells are. N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BELFRY — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However its old belfry still stands and was most important to us as we navigated …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BATS — [adjective] [after verb] - informal dated disapproving for silly and foolish with confused behaviourShe's bats.
Cambridge English vocab
BELFRY — n. Bell tower, either freestanding or attached to another structure. More particularly it refers to the room, usually at the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BATS — Synonyms and related words : balmy, bananas, barmy, batty, beany, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, flaky, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BELFRY — See: BATS IN ONE'S BELFRY or BATS IN THE BELFRY.
Slang English vocab
BATS — ➡ baseball
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
BATS — разг. батсы (акции компании "Бритиш-американ тобакко" (British-American Tobacco) по первым буквам названия компании
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
BELFRY — See: BATS IN ONE'S BELFRY or BATS IN THE BELFRY.
Словарь английских идиом
BATS — tabs
Anagrams English vocabulary
BATS — Even though Bats belong to the Mammal family, rather than being birds, I still included them on this page in …
The Bird English vocab
HAVE
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BELFRY — сущ. 1) колокольня; башня Syn : bell tower 2) навес, сарай 3) сл. голова, башка колокольня, звонница башня; каланча (сельскохозяйственное) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BATS — (сленг) сумасшедший - it's driving me * это сводит меня с ума; от этого рехнуться можно
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BATS — Летучие мыши
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
IN — in.ogg 1. ın n 1. 1> (the ins) pl парл. разг. политическая партия, находящаяся у власти см. тж. 2> обыкн. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HAVE
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BATS — a сл. сумасшедший it's driving me bats - это сводит меня с ума, от этого рехнуться можно
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BELFRY — belfry сущ.1) колокольня; башня Syn:bell tower 2) навес, сарай 3) сленг голова, башка
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BATS — прил.; сленг1) сумасшедший, рехнутый, чокнутый Are you bats or what? — Ты что, совсем с ума сошел? Syn:crazy, batty, batchy …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BATS — (n) сумасшедший
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
BATS — a сл. сумасшедший it's driving me ~ - это сводит меня с ума, от этого рехнуться можно
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова

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