go mad
Example Sentences
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And other times you'd be on fire and playing really well and he'd come in and go mad over one little thing, just to keep you on your toes.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
“Everybody’s got a part. Everybody can do a number. You can go mad with the costumes and the sets and the choreography.”
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
“If we didn’t, we’d go mad with existentialist terror.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2022
Thousands of years before the show begins, magic was corrupted, tainting the source of power such that any man who tried to use it would go mad.
From The Verge • Nov. 16, 2021
If I had to strain my brain with any more of that stuff I would go mad.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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