Download File - JOHN J. HADDAD, Ph.D.

go home in a boxsomeone. Don’t go green on me! You know I’m your bestbud!go home in a box in. to be shipped home dead. Youhad better be careful on this camping trip, or you’ll gohome in a box.go mental in. go crazy; to act stupid. Another day inthat history class and I know I will go mental.go off on so in. to berate someone. Don’t go off on me!I’m not the cause of your problems!go postal in. to become wild; to go berserk. He mademe so mad I thought I would go postal.go Rinso [...”rInso] in. to fail; to collapse in price. (A playon to go down the drain. Rinso is a laundry soap thatgoes down the drain after it is used. Used in the contextof the securities markets or other financial setting.) I knew my bank account would go Rinso after lastmonth’s bills came in.go the limit in. to do as much as possible; to get as muchas possible. We’ll go the limit. To heck with the cost.go Titanic in. to fail; to sink. (Refers to the sinking of thepassenger ship Titanic.) The whole project wentTitanic. We’re out of a job.go tits up in. to die; to go to ruin; to fall apart. (A playon go belly up which has the same meaning. Refers toan animal like a goldfish that turns belly up when itdies.) Her firm went tits up after the stock market crash.go zonkers in. to go slightly crazy. I went a little zonkersthere for a minute. Sorry.94