not the full shillin'

not the full shillin'
adj
British
slow-witted and/or distracted, eccen-tric. A folksy expression dating from the pre-decimalisation era, still heard in 2004, perhaps due to its use in the TV soap Coronation Street.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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