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词汇 be out to lunch
释义
Idiom
be out to lunch
informal to be behaving in a very strange or silly way.
And yet the conversation we had with him this morning suggests that he's not entirely out to lunch.
idiombe out to lunchspoken used in order to say that someone is talking or behaving in a confused or slightly crazy way:I tried ringing the magazine, but half the staff were eating lunch and the rest were out to lunch.The two main characters are both disasters in their own way. Edina is a bitch, and Patsy is permanently out to lunch.

be out to lunch

1. Literally, to have left one's desk or job to go eat lunch. Janet is out to lunch right now, but I can give her a message.
2. slang To be crazy. Don't listen to a word he says, he's out to lunch. You're out to lunch if you think that plan will work.
3. slang To be oblivious or inattentive and thus behave in silly or strange way. Did I just say that two plus two equals five? Wow, I'm really out to lunch today. I hardly ever get any of my messages because my receptionist is perpetually out to lunch.
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