off the hinges

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Prepositional phrase[edit]

off the hinges

  1. In a state of disorder or irregularity.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Support of Good Men:
      […] they were enabled to bear it, 'till being distracted by their torments, their understandings were thrown off the hinges […]
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