not the full shilling BrE informal

Gauci was not quite the full shilling.

But she knew Gardiner believed her; all the screws realised Matty wasn't the full shilling and she'd already gone for Sarah.

No one who followed Thursday's appearance before Lord Justice Leveson could doubt for an instant that he isn't the full shilling.

Did Malik still suspect him of not being quite the full shilling as far as heterosexuality was concerned?

Apparently he's not the full shilling.

A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.

Ever since my schooldays, I've been aware that, mathematically, I am not quite the full shilling.

'Och, come on; she's not exactly the full shilling, is she?'

We're in for the full shilling's worth now, ain't we?

'Hasn't got the full shilling,' she clucked soothingly.