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go off the deep endinformal 1Give way immediately to an emotional outburst, especially of anger: now don’t go off the deep end—I’ve thought of an idea...- I just went off the deep end and I said, ‘Hey, this is going too far’.’
- Some Bulgarian leaders, and its media, went off the deep end after a Bulgarian gymnastics hopeful was judged worthy of silver, but not gold.
- If anyone out there thinks the Globe & Mail is biased, the Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun and National Post have absolutely gone off the deep end since the election.
1.1chiefly US Go mad; behave extremely strangely: they looked at me as if I had gone off the deep end...- My mother has always been crazy but she finally went off the deep end and severed ties with me and her mother who I stay with.
- I don't know if she's just goofing around or if she's totally gone off the deep end.
- And pretty soon the fridge was empty and we're sitting there in the kitchen, laughing so hard about heart disease and strokes that I thought we'd both gone off the deep end.
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