go postal

短语

大动肝火; 大发脾气; 疯狂且暴力地; 极度兴奋地或怒不可遏地

发音

UK /ˌɡəʊ ˈpəʊstl̩/
US /ˌɡoʊ ˈpoʊstəl/

词形变化

goes postal 三单 goes postal going postal gone postal went postal going postal 现在分词 went postal 过去式 gone postal 过去式 gone postal 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To become aggressive and erratic, especially due to stress; specifically, to carry out a shooting spree at a workplace environment; also (more generally) to become very angry; to lose one's temper.

    美国 非正式 不及物

词源

From go (“to become”) + postal (“relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail”), from a number of incidents, mostly gun violence, perpetrated by disgruntled U.S. Postal Service workers on co-workers in the United States in the mid 1980s.

来源：wiktionary