off the wall

off the wall {adj. phr.}

Strange; out of the ordinary; stupid.

He has been making off-the-wall remarks all day; something must he the matter with him.

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[wall] See: [BACK TO THE WALL], [BEAT ONE'S HEAD AGAINST A WALL], [CLIMB THE WALL], [FORWARD WALL], [HANDWRITING ON THE WALL], [HOLE-IN-THE-WALL], [STONE WALL] or [BRICK WALL], [TO THE WALL]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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