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go postal

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go postal  (American very informal)
to become very angry, or to suddenly behave in a violent and angry way, especially in the place where you work
Usage notes: This idiom started when a post office worker in America shot several of the people he worked with.
My Mom will go postal if I get home late. When she heard she'd been fired she went postal and started throwing things around the office.
See also: postal

go postal
to suddenly become violent or angry I don't think anybody is going to come in to work and go postal on me.
Etymology: based on an event in which an employee of the US Postal Service shot and killed other workers
See also: postal


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But just because words like nimrod, go postal and wannabe are now fair game, we doubt they'll turn up on your next vocab quiz.
|8 A postage stamp boasting the likeness of Queen's deceased lead singer Freddie Mercury--and approved by the queen--causes conservatives to go postal in the United Kingdom.
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