As the autumn recruitment, midterm exam, national exam, postgraduate entrance examination, etc. are slowly approaching, many students shouted in their circle of friends, "It's going crazy, things are so numerous!"
So the question is, do students know how to say "I'm going crazy" in English? Today I have compiled a wave of "crazy" expressions, which makes you more than just say crazy...
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go bananas is "Running Banana"?
go bananas literally look like "running bananas". Does it suddenly feel like a picture in your mind... In fact, the phrase means "crazy, crazy, and emotional out of control". There are two statements about its origin:
One means go bananas is similar to go ape (ape), and the latter means "crazy, crazy". Putting the two together can easily remind people of monkeys, apes, and orangutans who are so happy to go crazy when they see bananas;
There is another saying that there is a kind of wine made of bananas. Drinking them will make people lose their minds, so go bananas means "crazy, crazy".
Don't talk about math any more. I'll go bananas!
Stop mentioning math, I'm going crazy!
The crowd went bananas when the concert began.
When the concert started, the crowd was almost crazy.
drive sb up the wall turns out to be "wall-bang"!
Push someone to the wall? Does it mean "wall-bang"? If you understand this way, you would be a big mistake!
is like a dog jumping over the wall and a rabbit jumping over the wall. Drive sb up the wall means pushing people to the wall, describing "just drive people crazy" and "it makes people furious".
My flat-mate is driving me up the wall.
My roommate is driving me up the wall.
My roommate is driving me crazy.
Your constant tapping is driving me up the wall!
You keep knocking and beating, and you are almost driving me crazy!
have/throw a fit is not "comfortable"!
fit can be used as a verb, adjective and noun. When used as a verb, it has the meaning of "suitable; similar", when used as an adjective, it has the meaning of "appropriate; healthy; suitable", and when used as a noun, it has the meaning of "explosive; suitable things".
So when you talk about have a fit, do you think it is to describe a person who is very comfortable? Not so! have a fit instead means that a person is not comfortable at all, meaning "a furious" and "a big tantrum".
Will Mrs Winterton have a fit if we add one more to the guest list at this late stage?
Will Mrs Winterton get angry?
He'd have a fit if he know what we were up to!
If he knows what we were up to!
He would be driven crazy!
hit the ceiling/roof is "beating the roof"?
ceiling means "ceiling, ceiling", and roof also means "roof, roof". Huh? How could it hit the roof? It turned out that he was so angry! He was furious like thunder, and the anger rushed straight to the ceiling!
hit the ceiling/roof refers to "a person is extremely angry and has lost control of his emotions."
Dad will hit the ceiling when he finds out I've left school.
If my dad finds out I've dropped out of school, he will be furious.
She asked where they met and when he told her the bar of his club, she hit the roof.
She was furious when she learned it was the club's bar. Is
fly off the handle "let yourself go"?
fly off the handle is "let yourself go"? The meaning is a bit close, but this "letting go" is not an active pursuit of freedom, but a "being led by emotions", that is, being dominated by emotions.
fly off the handle means "lost your temper; get angry".
I've never seen her fly off the handle like that before.
I've never seen her fly off the handle like that before.
I've never seen her get such a big temper before.
Unless some decision was reached, they might fly off the handle and do something foolish.
Unless some decision was reached, they might fly off the handle and do something foolish.
Unless they could get angry or even do stupid things.
blow one's top is not blowing your long hair!
blow does not mean "blow" here, and blow one's top does not have the aesthetic artistic conception of "blowing your long hair".
On the contrary, blow also means "explosion", so the literal meaning of blow one’s top seems to "explode someone’s head", which is similar to "angry and furious" and "ignorant".
My father will blow his top when he sees what happened to the car.
If my father sees such a problem with the car, he will be furious.
When her flight was cancelled she blew her top.
She was furious when her flight was cancelled.
(Source: Unipus official account of Waiyanshe Editor: yaning)
Source: Unipus official account of Waiyanshe
