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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

He continued: “That’s the only thing I can do, to make music. If I stopped right now, I would go mad in a month.”

From New York Times Jun. 10, 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

I’ve never been near anyone so frightened in my life—I thought he’d go mad with fear.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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