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Idioms and Phrases

Become extremely upset or angry, as in Dad will go ballistic when he sees you dented the new car . This expression, a variation on go berserk , originally alluded to a guided missile going out of control. [ Slang ; mid-1980s]
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Example Sentences

And the Republicans are going to go ballistic, especially on immigration.

The latest showdown between the U.S. and Russia could go ballistic.

The lesson is this: Spurned lovers have a tendency to go ballistic.

Her most loyal fans are very entrenched, though: They would probably go ballistic.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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