bats
bats (bats)
adjective
Slang insane; crazy
All is now desolate, fantastic, and ambushed with ghosts; the archaeologists twitter among them like bats.
How on earth are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of Englandto be taken seriouslyagainst that kind of background noise? It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well mortised and finely laid; He was the master of his trade It curiously builded; The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slats, Is covered with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded.
The colour of my soul is iron-greyand sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
Browse dictionary entries near bats
- batrachotoxin
- batrachian
- Baton Rouge
- baton
- Batna
- batman
- batiste
- bating
- batik
- bathythermograph
- batsman
- batt
- battalion
- battement
- batten
- batter
- battered-person syndrome
- batterie
- battering ram
- Battersea
