What are you on?
What are you on?
What are you thinking? That is an absurd or stupid thing to think or do. (Implies that someone would only do or think that if they were under the influence of drugs.) A: "I think they should just do away with taxes altogether!" B: "What are you on? Taxes pay for hospitals, roads, our military—literally everything on which our society is built." What are you on? You can't drive your car that speed along a residential road, you could get someone killed!
See also: what
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
what are you ˈon?
(informal) used when you are very surprised at somebody’s behaviour and are suggesting that they are acting in a similar way to somebody using drugsSee also: what
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- What color is the sun in your world?
- what planet are you on?
- What planet is (someone) on?
- what planet is someone on?
- What planet is (someone) from?
- go against the flow
- quit (some place)
- quit a place
- never in a month of Sundays
- think out of the box