barmy on the crumpet
At first sight, the idea seems barmy.
This idea seemed barmy when first proposed by a local historian a century ago.
So if I'm not at home, reading, you can find me in the park, skating and jumping like a barmy boy.
FEW things make European Union bosses so cross as“ euromyths”: those invented or exaggerated tales of barmy Brussels bureaucrats trying to outlaw a cherished feature of everyday life, be it pints of British milk or low-cut blouses on Bavarian barmaids( to quote two tabloid stories from last year).