out+of+one's+wits
31Half-Wits Holiday — Infobox Film name = Half Wits Holiday director = Jules White writer = Zion Myers starring = Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Emil Sitka Vernon Dent Barbara Slater Ted Lorch Symona Boniface producer = Jules White distributor = Columbia Pictures… …
32The Cross-Wits — Logo for the 1986–1987 version of Crosswits. Format Game show Created by Jerry Payne Present …
33As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning —   …
34at\ wits\ end — • at one s wit s end • at wits end adj. phr. Having no ideas as to how to meet a difficulty or solve a problem; feeling puzzled after having used up all of your ideas or resources; not knowing what to do; puzzled. He had approached every friend… …
35collect one's thoughts — verb To become mentally composed, especially after being distressed, surprised, or disoriented; to become calm or organized in ones emotional state or thinking, as in preparation for a conversation, speech, decision, etc …
36when the wine is in, the wit is out — Wit is used in the sense of ‘intelligence’, rather than ‘clever or amusing talk’. c 1390 GOWER Confessio Amantis VI. 555 For wher that wyn doth wit aweie [does away with wit], Wisdom hath lost the rihte weie [path]. 1529 MORE Dialogue of Images… …
37at\ one's\ wit's\ end — • at one s wit s end • at wits end adj. phr. Having no ideas as to how to meet a difficulty or solve a problem; feeling puzzled after having used up all of your ideas or resources; not knowing what to do; puzzled. He had approached every friend… …
38at one's wit's end — or[at wits end] {adj. phr.} Having no ideas as to how to meet a difficulty or solve a problem; feeling puzzled after having used up all of your ideas or resources; not knowing what to do; puzzled. * /He had approached every friend and… …
39at one's wit's end — or[at wits end] {adj. phr.} Having no ideas as to how to meet a difficulty or solve a problem; feeling puzzled after having used up all of your ideas or resources; not knowing what to do; puzzled. * /He had approached every friend and… …
40make one's blood run cold — frighten someone, scare a person out of his wits …
