| 单词 | to go ballistic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go ballistic 3. In figurative contexts. Out of control, haywire, berserk. Chiefly in to go ballistic slang (originally U.S.): to become wildly or explosively angry, to fly into a rage; (also) to become highly excited or enthusiastic; to intensify rapidly and esp. alarmingly.The specific reference in quot. 1966 is to the failure of a guided missile's guidance system, rendering it ‘ballistic’ (cf. sense 2a). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > be affected with violent emotion [verb (intransitive)] ragea1400 to blow one's top1928 to go haywire1929 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to flip one's lid (also wig)1950 wig1955 to go ballistic1981 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > to rage (of fury) [verb (intransitive)] > be or become furious wedec1000 resea1250 ragea1400 rampc1405 rase1440 outragea1475 stampc1480 enragec1515 ournc1540 gry1594 fury1628 rampage1692 to stamp one's foot1821 to fire off1848 foam1852 fire1859 to stomp one's feetc1927 to spit chips1947 to spit cotton1947 to spit blood1963 to go ballistic1981 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1966 Chicago Tribune 19 July i. 12/2 The SAM has a limiting factor in its ability to change course. If it exceeds these limits in trying to turn, it goes ballistic... It generally explodes in the air.] 1981 R. Scruton Fortnight's Anger iv. 114 He turned and stared intently..from black ballistic eyeballs. 1985 Washington Post 11 July a1/4 ‘Wickham went ballistic when he heard about the recommendation,’ one Pentagon executive said. 1988 G. H. W. Bush in N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. 17 I get furious. I go ballistic. I really do and I bawl people out. 1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 10 Sept. 43/3 Just after sunup..the ozone level goes ballistic. 1993 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 28 Dec. 1/1 The national media went ballistic over a claim..that Clinton had lovers. 1998 Lapidary Jrnl. Oct. 20 I went ballistic over the amazing patterns..and color found inside the rocks! 2000 C. Thayer Certain Slant of Light xxvii. 248 Boat belonged to the father of one of the kids. The dad was ballistic over the whole thing. < as lemmas |
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