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go out of one's mind
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Idioms and Phrases
Lose one's mental stability, become insane, as in After he heard that the ore he had mined was worthless, the prospector went out of his mind . This phrase is often used as a humorous exaggeration, as in I'm going out of my mind reading these proofs . The phrase out of one's mind dates from the late 1300s, and was used with go shortly thereafter. Also see lose one's mind .Advertisement
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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