go off the deep end
Example Sentences
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“People have problems, but you don’t expect them to go off the deep end like that,” Letarte said.
From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2023
Her untimely death prompts a heartbroken Padraic to go off the deep end.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
"I didn't go off the deep end," he explained.
From Fox News • Apr. 19, 2019
He probably senses she’s about to go off the deep end, I suggest, and Adichie smiles to acknowledge how impossible she is.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017
"Haven't you ever wanted to go off the deep end and not care what anybody thinks?"
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
