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動詞

go mad (third-person singular simple present goes mad, present participle going mad, simple past went mad, past participle gone mad)

1. (intransitive) To become insane.
   • 1941, Virginia Woolf, suicide note:

     I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time.

2. (intransitive, informal, typically followed by "and", plus a second verb) To do something extravagant.

   Let's go mad and have a bottle of wine with our lunch.

   Here's fifty pounds in case you see anything nice to buy, but don't go mad.

3. (intransitive, informal, usually as a past participle and preceded by a noun) To reach an excessive or ridiculous level.

   Why should we ban controversial speakers from college grounds? Surely that's political correctness gone mad?

同意語

• (to become crazy): go crazy, go nuts

アナグラム

• dogma