单词 | to go haywire |
释义 | > as lemmasto go haywire b. spec. in to go haywire, to go wrong; to become excited or distracted, to become mentally unbalanced. colloquial (originally U.S.). 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 world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > go wrong mistimeOE to come evil to pass1481 tread awry1524 mischance1552 to go wrong1592 pall1604 to go haywire1929 snafu1943 1929 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. When some element in the recording system becomes defective it is said to have gone haywire. 1933 Daily Express 16 Nov. 6/4 Haywire, epithet applied currently in U.S. to man of confused ideas... New York's newly elect mayor La Guardia is said by his enemies to have gone all haywire. 1936 M. Allingham Flowers for Judge i. 15 I suppose some wives would have gone haywire by this time. 1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) vii. 103 Some nice homicidal maniac..going all haywire. 1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 88 If the Governor Unit should go haywire then you merely pull the little switch down to the fixed position and all is well. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags 42 ‘If anyone so much as mentions concentration camps again,’ said Ambrose Silk, ‘I shall go frankly haywire.’ 1945 Times 28 May 2/1 The compasses acted normally, but over the magnetic pole, where the weather was more favourable, they ‘went haywire’. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael iii. i. 149 They go haywire because they haven't had any love affair at all. 1962 Catholic Herald 26 Oct. 1/5 Architecture has gone haywire. Music is without harmony. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 214 Everything..going haywire at the same time. < as lemmas |
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