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adjective (pos=off-the-wall)
  1. (context, idiom) Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd.
What kind of a harebrained off-the-wall idea is that?
She is a very character.
  1. (context, idiom) Greatly inappropriate.
His behaviour today is .
Translations: 
  • German: daneben
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom)
Etymology: Perhaps from baseball or other games played with a ball, alluding to unpredictable bounces.

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