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Go off the deep end

From The Great War On This Day

Go off the deep end: To get excited. To be furiously angry. The origin of the phrase seems untraceable. Possibly suggested by the natural nervousness, and often terror, of a swimming pupil on being first told to leave the shallow end of the swimming bath and go off into the deep end.[1]

References / notes

  1. Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.74.
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