flip out

flip out
flip out
Sl. to lose control of oneself. •

After a sleepless night, Wally simply flipped out.

I felt like I was going to flip out from the steady dripping of the faucet.

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{v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} To go insane, to go out of one's mind. * /A is impossible to talk to Joe today - he must have flipped out./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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