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swivel-eyed
adjective
informalUKuk /ˈswɪv.əlˌaɪd/ us /ˈswɪv.əlˌaɪd/
an insulting way to describe someone as crazy or as having very extreme ideas: 疯狂的，极端的（极具侮辱性的说法）
The press has characterized him as a swivel-eyed fanatic.媒体把他描述成一个极端狂热分子。
He is trying to ward off the opposition's charges that he is a swivel-eyed extremist.
Puritanism produces swivel-eyed zealots who pursue their manias with little sense of proportion.
To him they are "swivel-eyed Europhobes, hangers and floggers."
The opposing camp referred to him as "a swivel-eyed Stalinist".
He plays a swivel-eyed loon called Basil Fawlty who runs a small hotel.
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