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Difference between Out of one’s head • out of one’s own head

out of one’s head—

1. (also: off one’s head) crazy or behaving as if mad:

  • She was hysterical—Mike himself said she was out of her head!

2. very drunk or intoxicated:

  • By this time we were all tipsy but Peanut was out of his head.

3. unconscious; delirious:

  • In the morning when Andrew Masters came to see how he felt, Pledger was half out of his head.

4. from one’s imagination or memory:

  • I didn’t get the story from any book or magazine; I made it up out of my head.

out of one’s own head— = out of one’s head 4:

  • Were not all these answers given out of his own head?