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fairies
noun
▶ away with the fairies
day-dreaming, possibly drug-intoxicated; mentally deranged; out of this world IRELAND, 1996- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 11, 1998
- Is he away with the fairies? Is he away with you — Gomez, Las Vegas Dealer, 1999
- A lot of the old team [...] were either away doing time, away down in Goa or away with the fairies[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 17, 2000
- [O]nly two could produce relatives who remembered the area pre-war. One of them was so far away with the fairies that she probably bedded down under a toadstool every night. — Liz Evans, Barking!, p. 187, 2001
- I did go doolally and away with the fairies for a few weeks. — Jim Drury, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, p. 115, 2003
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