М-268

МОЧА В ГОЛОВУ УДАРИЛА кому highly coll , derog VP4Ubj this form only the verb may take the initial position, otherwise fixed WO

s.o. 's behavior, actions etc are foolishly illogical or abnormal: X-y моча в голову ударила - X is (must be) crazy (off his rocker, off his nut, out of his mind)

X must have lost his wits (his marbles).

Как? возмущался Марлен Михайлович. Даже без всякого классового сознания, без ненависти к победоносным массам, а только лишь из чистого любопытства гнусный аристокра-тишка отвернул исторический процесс, просто моча ему в голову ударила (Аксёнов 7). How could it be? the young Marlen Mikhailovich would ask himself, bewildered. Without a drop of class consciousness, without a trace of hatred for the victorious masses, with no more than a morbid sense of curiosity, this ratty little aristocrat changed the course of world history. He must have been crazy, out of his mind (7a).