But if I did so now, you'd take me out to your rickety old house, with your daffy old uncle and his dumb old housekeeper, and I should lose my own mind in a week or ten days.
He is the happy and enthusiastic pastor of a large and growing congregation, which congregation is simply "daffy" about him.
I'd rather have them than a rope of pearls and I'm just daffy over those things.
She laughed and said, 'Dan, you are getting daffy.' From that night on I have been a better husband and father.
Well, once upon a time, Uncle Bill was clear daffy on the subject of mosquitoes.
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One cannot say, however, that a solicitor is a "daffy-down-dilly" because that has been held to be actionable.
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People would leave the theaters talking about thisdaffyduck.
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Seldes, in contrast, speaks every one of her lines with gleeful,daffyrelish.
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It tells coherent storylines, yes, but it's also constantly raising the stakes in those storylines in ways that make sense within itsdaffyuniverse.
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The band played, the rooters swarmed the field, hugged their mule mascot and wentdaffyin general.
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She's likable anddaffybut never over-the-top.
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