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单词 to go haywire
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to go haywire
b. spec. in to go haywire, to go wrong; to become excited or distracted, to become mentally unbalanced. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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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.
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