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go mad



VERB
go to pieces
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When Cher performed the song at a festival last year, she says seeing the crowd go mad changed her own feelings towards it.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2025

“Everybody’s got a part. Everybody can do a number. You can go mad with the costumes and the sets and the choreography.”

From New York Times May 27, 2022

“You can go mad if you don’t make jokes,” she says.

From Seattle Times Apr. 29, 2022

Thousands of years before the show begins, magic was corrupted, tainting the source of power such that any man who tried to use it would go mad.

From The Verge Nov. 16, 2021

My father says, Do they take her away because she’s gone mad baking bread or does she go mad baking bread because they’re taking her away?

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt




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