The Romance is the best part of the four movements. One is a bit off one’s trolley at such times and I should surely write a better Suite at this time after twenty years of sober reflection.1919, American Guild of Organists, edited by Thomas Scott Buhrman, American Organist, volume 2, page 409:
On the whole, bodily symptoms have at least the consolatory fact about them, that they replace mental symptoms, fears of going off one’s trolley; and I suppose that, if I got rid of all the physical symptoms, things would but have been cleared away for a new worry about mental ones?1915–1981, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, edited by Paul Jay, The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1981, Viking, published 1988, →ISBN, page 30:
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As he walks through and makes up / Titles like this, to order / They're well off their trolley1990, “British People in Hot Weather”, in Extricate, performed by The Fall:
Being slightly off one’s trolley Uppermost in my list of top four teaching behaviours is being ever-so-slightly crazy ...^([sic]) to keep students guessing whether or not I have lost my marbles, and being not quite so predictable.2006, Mike Ollerton, Getting the Buggers to Add Up, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 164: