(January 2, 2022 at 9:02 am)Goosebump Wrote:(January 2, 2022 at 8:57 am)ignoramus Wrote: It was, sorry, you must be the only person in the world who hasn't heard the term batshit crazy. My bad.
As in "bats" are "crazy people" yes. I'm the last person apparently. Though I'd argue my teenage nieces would call most of your nomenclature ancient and your inability to understand them "crazy" not batshit crazy. they have their own terms.
It’s an extension of the idiom ‘bats in the belfry’. When the church bells were rung, the bats roosting in the belfry would (understandably) fly out. Hence ‘bats in the belfry’ meant you had nothing going on upstairs.
In a long-abandoned church, the bats could remain undisturbed for years, with the result that the belfry would be full of batshit. Therefore, the craziest of the crazy were ‘batshit crazy’.
Here endeth the lesson.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
