go off the deep end
Example Sentences
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“People have problems, but you don’t expect them to go off the deep end like that,” Letarte said.
From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2023
Her untimely death prompts a heartbroken Padraic to go off the deep end.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
"And most people, doctors, friends, most of everyone would have said, 'Well, yeah, she had every right to go off the deep end and just lose it.'"
From Fox News • Feb. 27, 2020
He probably senses she’s about to go off the deep end, I suggest, and Adichie smiles to acknowledge how impossible she is.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017
"I can suggest it, but, if he's anything of a cook, he'll go off the deep end at once."
From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford
