crack-brain

Everyone of my crack-brain ideas has made money, hasn't it?

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

Everyone of my crack-brain ideas has made money, hasn't it?

The Man Who Sold The Moon Heinlein, Robert A. 1953

Ne'er in all thy travels hast thou e'er seen so crack-brain a wench as my Keren!

A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

"Thou knowest as well as I do, Happuch," saith my wife; whereat up started my crack-brain in a fine fury.

A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

One could never be sure how far Godfrey was serious when he talked like this; the humorous impulse so blended with the excitability of his imagination, that people who knew him little and heard him talking at large thought him something of a crack-brain.

Will Warburton George Gissing 1880

"It has happened just as he deserved: put the crack-brain under lock and key!"

What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840

He'd get these crack-brain metaphysics out of the young gentleman's head as soon as any one I know.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

The gentlemen abode looking one upon another and fell a-saying that he was a crack-brain and that this that he had answered them amounted to nought seeing that there where they were they had no more to do than all the other citizens, nor Guido himself less than any of themselves.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

What other than a crack-brain like thee, who has suffered thyself to be blinded by thy jealousy, had failed to understand these things?

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

It is true that the excitability attendant upon genius approximates so closely to madness, that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between them; but, without the attendant "genius" to hold up the train of madness, and call for our special permission and respect in any of its fantastic excursions, the most ordinary crack-brain sometimes chooses to sport in the regions of sanity, and, without the license which genius is supposed to dispense to her children, poach over the preserves of common sense.

Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832