screw loose
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I think there's a screw loose in that brain of hers!"
- "Well, I don't say that he is strictly a lunatic, but there is obviously a screw loose somewhere."
- "I understand there's a screw loose between you two, so I've brought Morton that you may shake hands, and be comfortable together."
- "There is evidently a screw loose between us and some or other of the countries from which, according to royal speeches, we are everlastingly receiving assurances of love and amity."
- "There is a screw loose between the Austrians and French about Venice, which the latter wish to remain as a Republic, and they are also rather angry with Prussia, but I hope the French squadron at Trieste will not come to blows."