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go off the deep end
verb as in blow up
Strongest match
verb as in flip one's wig
verb as in flip out
verb as in freak out
Weak matches
- blow a gasket
- blow one's mind
- blow one's stack
- blow one's top
- break down
- come unglued
- crack up
- flip one's lid
- flip out
- fly off the handle
- go ape
- go ballistic
- go bananas
- go berserk
- go haywire
- go nuts
- hit the ceiling
- lose control of oneself
- lose one's composure
- lose one's cool
- lose one's mind
- lose one's temper
- wig out
- work oneself up
verb as in go crazy
Weak matches
- blow a gasket
- blow one's mind
- blow one's stack
- blow one's top
- crack up
- flip one's lid
- flip out
- fly off the handle
- go ballistic
- go bananas
- go batty
- go berserk
- go bonkers
- go buggy
- go cuckoo
- go daffy
- go haywire
- go kooky
- go loco
- go loony
- go mental
- go nuts
- go nutty
- go off one's rocker
- go off the wall
- go psycho
- go wacko
- go wacky
- lose control of oneself
- lose one's cool
- lose one's mind
- wig out
Example Sentences
“Moving to Scottsdale in 2008 I think saved my life,” he said, “And ... I’m 38, I’ve still never had a sip of alcohol, I’ve never done drugs, I’ve never, done anything — so I don’t mean in that sense of like ‘Oh, I’m gonna go off the deep end like so many child actors do.”
“People have problems, but you don’t expect them to go off the deep end like that,” Letarte said.
Her untimely death prompts a heartbroken Padraic to go off the deep end.
“It’s no f---ing wonder people go off the deep end. It’s no f---ing wonder people shave their head and get tattoos on their face or pee in buckets,” she said.
“What it’s taught me is that you don’t go into a parking lot, ever, at night. You don’t go to the bathroom in a movie theater. And anybody could go off the deep end.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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