Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 13, 2006, 21:46 |
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On 7/13/06, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:
> Not so weird when you consider "go" as meaning
> "become":
Exactly. And I don't see how else one can interpret the "go" in "go
crazy". I suppose one might regard the whole phrase as an atomic
idiom, but that's clearly not the case; one can "go" all sorts of
things. "She was so mad she went red in the face." "We were talking,
and then his phone rang and he went all weird on me." Having gone
crazy, one can even go back sane....
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>