avoir un grain

French

Etymology

Possibly related to the nautical sense of grain, an abnormal meteorological phenomenon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ɡʁɛ̃/
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Verb

avoir un grain

  1. (informal) to be crazy, to be strangely behaved
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