How To Use Barmy In A Sentence

  • They'd think Daddy quite barmy, and they'd be right.
  • Meanwhile, all over the country, councils are dreaming up new and increasingly barmy ideas to squeeze a few more lumps of money from motorists. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's also fun to find out, via these collected letters, the types of books and movies Farrell was consuming while writing and editing Troubles: Cold Comfort Farm, Thomas Hardy ( "barmy"), The Garden of Finzi-Continis, Easy Rider. Awards and honors
  • Hardly a week goes by without another barmy example of political correctness being imposed by our town halls.
  • What's more, the speed limits in this country are barmy.
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  • A colleague called it "bureaucracy gone barmy."
  • Can drive you a bit barmy, this acting lark. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whatever else he may be, Leishman is certainly an extrovert, and the barmy bard would turn up on Saint and Greavsie delivering slices of his home-cooked poetry.
  • But the president-for-life is as sinister as he is barmy.
  • A new report reveals we are forking out fortunes to bankroll bureaucrats with barmy "non-job" titles.
  • But barmy carbohydrate appears in starch and candy, include those consist in food to counteract the starch in be being added into treatment food and candy.
  • But the over-protective hothouse mentality is barmy.
  • We must be barmy to let this happen.
  • This barmy policy seems to be a waste of energy. The Sun
  • Doolittle in My Fair Lady, is back on more familiar ground in this barmy story, littered with Wilde's razor-sharp one-liners.
  • He draws out great performances from his cast as well - Peter Kelly's barmy theatre owner and David Ireland as his bumbling nemesis being just two examples.
  • These are the barmy ideas of overpaid senior officers with topsy-turvy priorities. The Sun
  • A welcoming friend, he would always look at a manuscript or sit up for hours to listen politely to a barmy argument.
  • People believes generally, all containing but the food of barmy carbohydrate can is opposite of dental caries form a potential effect.
  • But that assumption is driving this bridezilla barmy. The Sun
  • He it was who conceived the slightly barmy idea of using the Monument as a telescope. Times, Sunday Times
  • And once again this barmy idea that they are a boring team plodding up the field was taken apart. Times, Sunday Times
  • Through all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive.
  • It's time this Government made a stand and refused to implement such a barmy policy. The Sun
  • Actually, we thought he was a lunatic - quite literally: he went barmy when the moon was full.
  • That someone who is getting assaulted by their partner is prepared to put up with that because if they leave, the pet will receive the same treatment is slightly barmy, but understandable.
  • He is often regarded in the West as a bumbling eccentric, renowned for issuing barmy decrees.
  • Surely the cash spent on this barmy idea could be put to better causes, such as our troops' kit? The Sun
  • It's absolutely barmy,' he said, as he wound a tendril round his finger. RESCUING ROSE
  • It was a balmy night and a barmy night. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clock would drive most of us barmy.
  • If you were barmy enough to believe that the Commies really would infiltrate the corridors of power through brain-washing, then you were barmy enough to believe anything.
  • Mrs Hill described her sacking as "barmy" and said she would be opening a bottle of champagne to celebrate her victory. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Their policies are laughable - what's happening with the lake in front of the City Hall, how much were the consultants' fees for that barmy idea?
  • So it's not completely barmy. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said: 'It is barmy. The Sun
  • The Thomsons' predicament is a stellar leap away from the world of Matisse copies and Jack Vettriano posters, but the decision to reframe the Rubens isn't as barmy as it sounds.
  • It's also fun to find out, via these collected letters, the types of books and movies Farrell was consuming while writing and editing Troubles: Cold Comfort Farm, Thomas Hardy ( "barmy"), The Garden of Finzi-Continis, Easy Rider. Awards and honors
  • He used the pyramids as support for a totally barmy argument against metric units.
  • Their barmy idea will arouse fury in the North and South. The Sun
  • Shadow Home Secretary David Davis called the idea "barmy". Archive 2005-08-01
  • Everything normal in your life looks barmy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The barmy cases were on a list of thousands of public liability claims which cost local government 250million a year. The Sun
  • PSD simply breed mistrust, are divisive, and talk to officers as though they are living saints and that the system works, and they never did anything that in any way deviated from the barmy ideas we now work under. Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • If you were barmy enough to believe that the Commies really would infiltrate the corridors of power through brain-washing, then you were barmy enough to believe anything.
  • I am struggling to remember a more barmy example of passing the buck.
  • A spokeswoman said: 'It was barmy. The Sun
  • Asking the locals something apparently obvious with a Scottish accent just makes them think I'm barmy.
  • I haven't gone completely barmy. The Sun
  • There are people who'd think you were barmy.
  • Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege! Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
  • In London, the Foreign Office says the idea of Britain in NAFTA is "barmy," as it would have to pull out of the EU entirely. Continental Drift?
  • I think it's an absolutely barmy idea. Times, Sunday Times
  • On his own return to the Tory frontbench, Mr Hague said: ‘I must be mad, actually, I am obviously barmy.’
  • Before asking whether it is a barmy idea, let's look at the context. Times, Sunday Times
  • BIRMINGHAM MEP Mike Nattrass is determined to prove there are no flies on him by rallying against a "barmy" EU directive outlawing pepper from insect traps. Archive 2007-02-01
  • You are Gaga, barmy vagina dentata on legs with really very orthodox tunes. Beyoncé, Gaga and Adele: why these three girls rule the world (of pop)
  • It's St George's Day and the bunting is flapping in the breeze outside the Barmy Arms in Twickenham.
  • It was completely barmy to get married at 23. Not the right thing to have done at all. Times, Sunday Times
  • In April of this year, however, things soured when Taylor caught Barmy getting intimate with another avatar, named Modesty McDonnell.
  • And while such diligent pursuit of knowledge usually goes unremarked and unrewarded, next week the world's barmy boffins get their moment of glory.
  • As he was led away to the cells, Palmer swore and shouted: ‘What a waste of taxpayers' money - it's barmy.’
  • This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
  • I whittled away in my bedroom - I used to drive the cleaners barmy, with shavings around the room.
  • It was quiet, no barmy celebrations, with stunned supporters still coming to terms with what they had seen.
  • Anyone barmy enough to join Morris in jumping out of a plane can get in touch with him about next year's trip to France.
  • This barmy idea is policy of governments past and present but will put English gardeners at a disadvantage and export yet more horticulture jobs abroad. The Sun
  • You will go completely barmy after a day or two. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is the absolutely barmy Professor Cuthbert Calculus, who designs the rocket to the moon.
  • In a further twist to this story, Baker must know that there is absolutely nothing he, as an MP, can do about changing what he condemns as a "barmy" directive. How we are governed
  • In the beginning, even Scotland's leading folk musicians thought Celtic Connections was a barmy idea.
  • But barmy carbohydrate appears in starch and candy, include those consist in food to counteract the starch in be being added into treatment food and candy.
  • In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
  • This fabulously barmy show is littered with Wilde's inimitable razor-sharp hysterical one-liners and a delicious vein of black humour.
  • This means their actions are likely to get more desperate, their logic more twisted, their conspiracy theories more barmy and their rhetoric more rabid.
  • Can drive you a bit barmy, this acting lark. Times, Sunday Times
  • My wife thinks I am a bit barmy.
  • The result was an utterly mad, mostly utterly barmy, rush of a half hour.
  • This year, we had the additional joys of a barmy dog that hates fireworks - and goes slightly mental when they go off.
  • Those are the blokes so barmy, so psycho, they got turned down by their own national armies.
  • The kid must be barmy on the crumpet; he's brought us soy sauce for wine.
  • It was just political correctness gone completely barmy. The Sun
  • Do we really pay people to come to such barmy decisions?
  • You have a huge following and some popular - if barmy - ideas. The Sun
  • Barmy idea - and I was too expensive? Times, Sunday Times
  • The bipolar despotic p ig controls the stupid army and preserves power by lavishing favours on the barmy army officers and police chiefs whose hands are so steeped in blood that regime change would be their own nemesis. Global Voices in English » Fiji: ‘A Christian state’?
  • Feeling hungry having not eaten since breakfast, we had a Chinese meal for tea and watched Second Hand Lions which is a fantastic film about a boy growing up with his two barmy uncles.
  • Everywhere we turn there is fresh evidence that the country has gone completely barmy on the price front.
  • It was a balmy night and a barmy night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barmy as it sounds, this amazing gizmo performs miracles on dirty windows, grimy shower screens and greasy mirrors. The Sun
  • In addition, the unceasing soundtrack of light, R & B-influenced pop and mild-mannered rock is sending me slightly barmy.
  • I stayed for a year on my own and went absolutely barmy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps you should have little fiddly problems with a new property, but it should not be as barmy as this.
  • She obviously thought he was barmy.
  • Rules and regulations are never anything other than "barmy" and planning strategies are invariably "Soviet-style". Society Daily 07.07.10

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