| 词汇 | off one-s base |
| 词源 | off one’s base. To be off one’s base is to be crazy, mentally un- balanced. Americans have been using this slang term since at least 1912. It has its origins in baseball, suggesting a base run- ner blithely hanging far off base without any thought of being picked off. See off base. |
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