screw loose

Idioms and Phrases

see have a screw loose .

Example Sentences

Could that be why “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which spends a lot of time laying out its delightfully screw-loose multiverse logic, seems to overexplain its big emotional beats and cultural specificities?

From Los Angeles Times

When she isn’t promoting screw-loose conspiracy theories, the Flagstaff Republican pals around with Holocaust deniers and cheers for Russia and its strongman, Vladimir Putin.

From Los Angeles Times

That mordant sensibility was already in evidence in his 2000 feature debut, “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” a screw-loose dark comedy about reckless canine endangerment at an apartment complex.

From Los Angeles Times

Variety's Justin Chang gives "Hot Tub 2" a mildly positive review, calling it an "enjoyably screw-loose vision" with "just the right amount of slapdash, surrealism-for-slobs attitude."

From Los Angeles Times

Now he’s back as Frank, the titular screw-loose in “Maniac,” a smartly modernized remake of one of the first and most notoriously reviled slasher films of the 1980s.

From Seattle Times

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