nuttier than a fruitcake

nuttier than a fruitcake

Crazy or wacky. Usually used humorously. The kids are always nuttier than fruitcakes when they've had something sugary to eat. My Aunt Jeannie has always been nuttier than a fruitcake.
See also: fruitcake, nutty
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nuttier than a fruitcake

Crazy, eccentric. This term originated in America about 1920 and transfers the actual nuts in a fruitcake to the colloquial meaning of nutty as crazy. The term later gave rise to the usage fruitcake for an eccentric individual.
See also: fruitcake, nutty
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • as nutty as a fruitcake
  • fruitcake
  • (as) nutty as a fruitcake
  • nutty
  • nutty as a fruitcake
  • here/there (one) goes again
  • never a dull moment
  • as always
  • twa
  • it was ever so
References in periodicals archive
He is also nuttier than a fruitcake with enough phobias and obsessions to keep a conference of shrinks going for a month.
ALUN PALMER AT THE MOVIES: Nutty as a fruitcake
No, I do not mean the fruitcake question as in the old phrase "nuttier than a fruitcake." Since the Reagan Adminstration left Washington, thus removing from the national potlight all those economists who predicted deficits by lucking at pigeon entrails while costumed as Eleanor of Aquitaine, I get very little mail on that sort of fruitcake question.
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