Of course, the expression "on one side of your brain" is a little outdated by today, but sometimes some people may still be interested in its meaning. It is precisely for them (as well as for everyone else) that we will reveal the meaning of the phraseological unit “brains on one side.”
What is "sideways"?
"Sideways" is a colloquial version of the words "wrong", "obliquely", "crookedly". That's what they usually say about clothes. Sometimes, however, the word "sideways" is applied to the actions or life of a person. For example, "lives sideways": lives wrong, stupid.
For example, to win $1,000,000 and spend it all on gum is a special case of sideways life. By the way, this also indicates that a person’s brains are on one side, that is, they are not arranged the way they should, not the way most people have. Figuratively speaking, they are slightly shifted to the side.
How do you know if your friend's brain is on one side?
Naturally, this kind of "defects" is not the fault of the physiological structure of the head or the brain in it, but the system of human value orientations. Simply put,what a person considers important and what is not very important.
And yes, do not forget that the author of most phraseological units is the people. And for the majority, "on one side brains" of everyone who lives differently.
Robert Bloch, Alfred Hitchcock and "Brains on Side"
It would seem, how are the American writer, the British and American film director and the Russian idiom connected? Everything is very simple. Robert Bloch wrote, and Alfred Hitchcock directed a film based on his book, in which the phrase was almost catchy: "We are all a little crazy." In other words, everyone's brains are twisted one way or another.
Wait to protest, just think about this wonderful thought. All adults are not quite grown up. Everyone has a hobby that is harmless or tangible enough for the budget (video games, racing cars, collecting expensive or not very expensive). In any case, each of us deviates from some norm or even, better to say, the ideal of an adult.
As we see an adult: he is serious, does not waste time on nonsense, earns money for the family, not paying attention to nonsense. Someone will say: “But there are people like that!” Of course, but they are terribly sad.
The paradox is that completely normal people do not exist. For example, K.-G. Jung (psychologist) used to say: "Show me a normal person and I will try to cure him."
Being the norm is not the norm. A person should have all sorts of cute pranks - a hobby. And this, contrary to expectations, suggests that they are completelyare normal. In other words, it’s not bad when a person’s brains are slightly on one side (phraseologism is just right here), that is, he is a little crazy.
Synonyms
Sometimes there is a need to explain something to someone. For example, a baby son approached his father and asked the baby: "What is" brains on one side "?". The father should not get lost and say directly to his son: “Son, this is a person who thinks differently from others. He's a little 'hello', a little crazy, you know?" Of course, the child will ask, but how is it - “with regards” or “crazy”. Well, here you should not lose heart and give an example of enthusiastic scientists who see nothing but science.
If the child is already old enough, then to the question of what it means "on one side of the brain", you can answer that there is such an expression "not of this world." That is, a person who is different from everyone else. If the parent is sure that the child will understand the biblical background of the last phraseological unit, then you can tell about them.
