off the deep end

Idioms and Phrases

see go off the deep end .

Example Sentences

But without going off the deep end, how serious are these risks really?

From Salon

Some of this is because the 5th Circuit has just gone completely off the deep end on some of these cases, and the court has to reverse them.

From Slate

Or so it seems — it’s only the halfway mark — as we ping-pong between screenings of revered directors leaping off the deep end, their former penchants for verisimilitude tossed aside.

From Los Angeles Times

A defendant speaking during closing arguments is usually in the context of “someone going off the deep end and trying to interrupt the attorney,” which is common in criminal cases, White said.

From Salon

“Moving to Scottsdale in 2008 I think saved my life,” he said, “And ... I’m 38, I’ve still never had a sip of alcohol, I’ve never done drugs, I’ve never, done anything — so I don’t mean in that sense of like ‘Oh, I’m gonna go off the deep end like so many child actors do.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• delicate
• dicey
• hazardous
• perilous
• precarious
• sensitive
• speculative
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• tricky
• uncertain
• unhealthy
• unsafe
• unsound