English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
Alphabetical List of Idioms - G, page 7
from: 'go to extremes'
to: 'go on a rampage'
- go to extremes
- People who go to extremes behave in a way that lacks moderation.
"My parents tend to go to extremes. They live on a tight budget and then they go on expensive holidays."
- People who go to extremes behave in a way that lacks moderation.
- go with the flow
- If you go with the flow, you follow the general tendency and go along with whatever happens.
"When my colleagues organise an office party, I just go with the flow."
- If you go with the flow, you follow the general tendency and go along with whatever happens.
- go great guns
- If someone or something is going great guns, they are doing very well.
"Fred's night club is going great guns. It's becoming hard to get in!"
- If someone or something is going great guns, they are doing very well.
- go to great lengths
- When trying to achieve something, if you go to great lengths
or great pains, you do everything that is possible in order to succeed.
"The two parties went to great lengths to reach an agreement."
- When trying to achieve something, if you go to great lengths
or great pains, you do everything that is possible in order to succeed.
- go hand in hand
- If two or more things , they are associated or often happen at the same time.
"In big cities, poverty and violence often go hand in hand."
- If two or more things , they are associated or often happen at the same time.
- go haywire
- If something goes haywire, it becomes disorganised or goes out of control.
"The photocopier has gone completely haywire. It's only printing half of each page!"
- If something goes haywire, it becomes disorganised or goes out of control.
- go hell for leather
- If you , you go somewhere or do something very fast.
"I saw Tom going hell for leather towards the station."
- If you , you go somewhere or do something very fast.
- go the whole hog
- When you go the whole hog, you do something thoroughly or completely.
"The put up a few decorations for Christmas, then they decided to go the whole hog and buy a tree and all the trimmings."
- When you go the whole hog, you do something thoroughly or completely.
- go in one ear and come out the other
- To say that information goes in one ear and comes out the other means that
it is immediately forgotten or ignored.
"I keep telling him about the risks but it goes in one ear and out the other. He never listens!"
- To say that information goes in one ear and comes out the other means that
it is immediately forgotten or ignored.
- go into overdrive
- If someone or something goes into overdrive, they begin to work very hard or start to perform intensely.
"At the start of every new collection my imagination goes into overdrive."
- If someone or something goes into overdrive, they begin to work very hard or start to perform intensely.
- go nuts
- To say that a person has gone nuts means that they have become
completely foolish, eccentric or mad.
"I think the old lady has gone nuts! It's very hot today and she's wearing a fur coat!"
- To say that a person has gone nuts means that they have become
completely foolish, eccentric or mad.
- go off the deep end
- If a person goes off the deep end, they become so angry or upset
that they cannot control their emotions.
"Eva will go off the deep end if her kids leave the kitchen in a mess again."
- If a person goes off the deep end, they become so angry or upset
that they cannot control their emotions.
- go off the rails
- If someone goes off the rails, they go out of control and begin to behave
in a manner that is unacceptable to society.
"Given the unstable environment, it's a miracle that none of their children ever went off the rails."
- If someone goes off the rails, they go out of control and begin to behave
in a manner that is unacceptable to society.
- go off on a tangent
- If someone goes off on a tangent, they change the subject completely in the middle of a speech,
an explanation or a conversation.
"Sometimes when he's teaching, Mr.Brown goes off on a tangent and starts talking about his dog!"
- If someone goes off on a tangent, they change the subject completely in the middle of a speech,
an explanation or a conversation.
- go off with a bang
- If something such as an event or performance goes off with a bang, it is very successful.
"The party went off with a bang - everyone enjoyed it."
- If something such as an event or performance goes off with a bang, it is very successful.
- go on a rampage
- If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a violent way,
causing damage, destruction or chaos.
(A single individual can go on a rampage, but the expression is most often used to refer to angry mobs.)
"Extensive damage was caused yesterday when gangs of aggressive supporters went on a rampage after the match."
- If people go on a rampage, they rush around in a violent way,
causing damage, destruction or chaos.
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