off-the-wall

off-the-wall
1) ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe something as off-the-wall, you mean that it is unusual and rather strange but in an amusing or interesting way. [INFORMAL]

...surreal off-the-wall humor.

2) ADJ-GRADED (disapproval) If you say that a person, their ideas, or their ways of doing something are off-the-wall, you are critical of them because you think they are mad or very foolish.

It can be done without following some absurd, off-the-wall investment strategy.


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