an expression meaning crazy or insane
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- Cocoa Puffs is an American dry sweet chocolate puff cereal for children made by General Mills. "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" was a marketing slogan or catchphrase they began using in their 1980s TV commercials for the cereal where Sonny, a brown cuckoo bird, loves the cereal so much that he says "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs"
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If you think I'm going to watch all eight of you're kids for the weekend, you're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Submitted by TriplePurple on April 11, 2024
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