off the deep end Idiom

go off the deep end

give way to emotion He went off the deep end when he saw the picture in the paper.

off the deep end

(See go off the deep end)

jump off the deep end

Idiom(s): go off the deep end AND jump off the deep end

Theme: LOVE

to follow one's emotions into a romantic situation. (Informal. Refers to going into a swimming pool at the deep end—rather than the shallow end—and finding oneself in deep water. Applies especially to falling in love.)
• Look at the way Bill is looking at Sally. I think he's about to go off the deep end.
• Now, John, I know you really want to go to Australia, but don't go jumping off the deep end. It isn't all perfect there.

go off the deep end|go|go off|go overboard|overboa

v. phr., informal To act excitedly and without careful thinking. John has gone off the deep end about owning a motorcycle. Mike warned his roommate not to go off the deep end and get married. Some girls go overboard for handsome movie and television actors.

off the abysmal end

slang Crazy or irrational. A; "Now your ancestor thinks the neighbors are acute adjoin him." B: "Wow, he's absolutely gone off the abysmal end!" Whoa, man, stop yelling! I alone put a tiny blemish on your car, so there's no charge to go off the abysmal end.Learn more: deep, end, off

off the abysmal end, to go

To overreact; to let one’s affections backpack one away. The “deep end” apparently agency the abysmal baptize at the end of a pond pool, which it is adventurous to access unless one can swim. The appellation became accepted in the aboriginal twentieth century. “There’s no acumen for your activity off the abysmal end,” wrote Kathleen Knight (Rendezvous with the Past, 1940).Learn more: deep, go, off

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