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go berserk
Idioms and Phrases
Erupt in furious rage, become crazily violent. For example, When they announced the gymnast's score, her coach went berserk . This expression is believed to allude to the name of Norse warriors renowned for their ferocity in battle and for wearing no armor but a bearskin shirt (or berserkar ). [Late 1800s] Also see go ape .Example Sentences
People who cannot separate themselves from the reality around them go berserk when that reality turns and bites.
Any moment now, they might go berserk, turning their course fatally toward the Sun.
If there is anything to stir the blood of a man like a destroyer beginning to see red and go Berserk, I have yet to encounter it.
Anyhow, the way things were going, we'd all go berserk before we reached Saturn.
Take away their fracases and their trank pills and they'd go berserk.
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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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