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Attic salt

A shrewd, cutting, or subtle humor or wit. Also referred to as "Attic wit." Marianne was known to pepper her conversation with a bit of Attic salt, so she was quite popular at dinner parties. He lays on the Attic salt a bit too often for my taste; I can never tell when he's being serious. Ho ho, there's that Attic salt we know and love! That's why we asked you to host the evening.

Attic wit

A shrewd, cutting, or subtle humor or wit. Also referred to as "Attic salt." He lays on the Attic wit a bit too often for my taste; I can never tell when he's being serious. Marianne was known to pepper her conversation with a bit of Attic wit, so she was quite popular at dinner parties. Ho ho, there's that Attic wit we know and love! That's why we asked you to host the evening.

have toys in the attic

To be crazy; to act, think, or behave in an eccentric, foolish, or nonsensical manner. Tommy must have toys in the attic if he thinks he can convince our mother to let him get a tattoo for his birthday. There's an old lady who stands on the corner yelling at strangers all day. I think she might have toys in the attic.

queer in the attic

slang Mentally impaired, either due to stupidity or intoxication. In this phrase, "attic" is used as a synonym for "one's mind." I have no idea what I told you last night—I'd been at the pub for a while before you got there, so I was a little queer in the attic. Is he queer in the attic? How could he make such a reckless decision?

attic

n. the head, thought of as the location of one’s intellect. She’s just got nothing in the attic. That’s what’s wrong with her.

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Before Jane Eyre's madwoman roamed the attic and before the subsequent connection between that space and female agency in Victorian fiction became established, Pamela can be argued to have performed in that site an antecedent moment of female agency--and did so before the novel was understood to be staked on the marriage plot and domestic interiority.