go batty

VERB

go crazy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

freak out go off lose it

WEAK

blow a gasket blow one's mind blow one's stack blow one's top crack up flip one's lid flip out fly off the handle go ballistic go bananas go berserk go bonkers go buggy go cuckoo go daffy go haywire go kooky go loco go loony go mental go nuts go nutty go off one's rocker go off the deep end go off the wall go psycho go wacko go wacky lose control of oneself lose one's cool lose one's mind wig out

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That’s not to say a phone, laptop or a smartwatch will suddenly go batty after two years; the process is usually much more subtle than that.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

I once asked Howard Hawks if he was bothered about not having final cut and he said: 'Well, the guy put up the money – what if I go batty?'

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2011

Any woman who sees the film will go "batty" over its leading man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Is this Locke character selling us the idea that we all ought to go batty to save the world?"

From At the Post by Gold, H. L. (Horace Leonard)

go batty

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