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What's is the meaning of "have one’s head screwed on backwards" and how to use it?
Do people still use this phrase?
2011년 8월 16일 오후 11:59
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The comment from "English Teacher" is correct. This is an idiom meaning that a person lacks common sense. To understand this idiom, imagine that a person's head is attached to his body like a screw - if his head is "screwed on backwards," then he is facing his backside and therefore, unable to see either what is ahead of him or what he is doing.
Example usage: "Even after making a shopping list, he still forgot to buy beef for the stew - it was as though his head was screwed on backwards."
2011년 8월 17일
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Yes they still use this phrase on occasion.
It means they don't know what they are doing!!!
2011년 8월 17일
Two similar phrases are "hasn't got a clue" and " he wouldn't know if his house was on fire"
Examples: Don't ask Tim to help you. He is so scatterbrained that he hasn't got a clue which door he should open. He wouldn't know if his house was on fire.
2011년 8월 17일
哦耶！又学到新东西了。继续关注~~
2011년 8월 17일
They still use it.
It means someone lacks common sense or behaves in strange ways.
2011년 8월 17일
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