| He was a man who was a wise as a venerable oak to some and as nutty as a fruitcake to others. |
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| Only 16.7 percent of them are non compos mentis, or, in football terms, nutty as a fruitcake. |
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| Make that, nutty as a fruitcake, smothering, needy, obsessive, destructive, frightened and yet somehow memorably eccentric and delightful, as long as you're hearing about life with her rather than actually living it. |
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| Padraic, with his para-military equipment bristling out of his shoulder harness, is an endearing chap but as nutty as a fruitcake. |
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