- Why job in nut job - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Maybe looking at its origin will help SlangDictionary com defines "nut-job" as: a more recent variation of nut-case
- How nutty are the terms nut case, health nut and sports nut?
Nut is slang for head And nut case means head case; i e, mind brain injury illness It's a pretty obvious metaphor: nuts and human heads have breakable covers, are spherical living things, and are filled with other important living things (some of which may even resemble one another -- compare walnut meats with brain hemispheres visually, for instance)
- How did the phrase are you nuts come about?
Etymology Online contends that nuts was influenced by the metaphoric application of nut to refer to one's head To be off one's nut dates from 1861 as an expression for "to be insane"
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