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go off the deep end

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go off the deep end (informal)
to suddenly become very angry or upset and start shouting at someone. One minute we were having a perfectly reasonable discussion and the next minute you just went off the deep end!
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go off the deep end
to become so angry or upset that you cannot control your emotions. Tom will go off the deep end if Jerry can't pay him the money he owes.
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And, even if some blacks do occasionally go off the deep end and wrongly harangue whites for using the word, maybe that's because the term pricks agonizing historical and social sores.
Only when Eitzel whines "No one cares if I live or die" does his drama go off the deep end.
But how do we not go off the deep end when our lives are so frenetic and there are so many changes in our lives?
 
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