英语词汇“to go postal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

U.S. colloquial. [With reference to several recorded cases in which employees of the U.S. Postal Service have shot at their colleagues.] to go postal: to behave in a violent or frenzied manner, esp. as the result of stress; spec. to shoot at one's colleagues, esp. randomly. Frequently in weakened sense: to get very angry, to fly into a rage.

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1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. The symposium was sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, which has seen so many outbursts that in some circles excessive stress is known as ‘going postal’.

1994 A. Heckerling Clueless (film script, first shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) Green Revised Pages 11 Cher. You get your report card? Dionne. ..Yeah, I'm toast, you'll never see me out of the house again. How'd you do? Cher. God, I totally choked. My father's going to go postal on me.

1997 N.Y. Mag. 22 Dec. 85 Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), after a bipolar switch to a career as an ACLU attorney specializing in First Amendment cases, goes postal and blows away two assistant U.S. Attorneys outside the federal courthouse.

1999 New Yorker 27 Sept. 43/2 A man two seats away ‘went postal’ when the battery on his cell phone gave out. A heavyset passenger had to sit on the man until the train finally pulled into Grand Central.

2001 Brill's Content Apr. 67/1 Those adjustments [i.e. lay-offs]..were..accomplished in some instances by having guards escort employees immediately out of the building because..Johnson..feared they might ‘go postal’.

单词	to go postal
释义	> as lemmas to go postal U.S. colloquial. [With reference to several recorded cases in which employees of the U.S. Postal Service have shot at their colleagues.] to go postal: to behave in a violent or frenzied manner, esp. as the result of stress; spec. to shoot at one's colleagues, esp. randomly. Frequently in weakened sense: to get very angry, to fly into a rage. ΚΠ 1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. The symposium was sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, which has seen so many outbursts that in some circles excessive stress is known as ‘going postal’. 1994 A. Heckerling Clueless (film script, first shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) Green Revised Pages 11 Cher. You get your report card? Dionne. ..Yeah, I'm toast, you'll never see me out of the house again. How'd you do? Cher. God, I totally choked. My father's going to go postal on me. 1997 N.Y. Mag. 22 Dec. 85 Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), after a bipolar switch to a career as an ACLU attorney specializing in First Amendment cases, goes postal and blows away two assistant U.S. Attorneys outside the federal courthouse. 1999 New Yorker 27 Sept. 43/2 A man two seats away ‘went postal’ when the battery on his cell phone gave out. A heavyset passenger had to sit on the man until the train finally pulled into Grand Central. 2001 Brill's Content Apr. 67/1 Those adjustments [i.e. lay-offs]..were..accomplished in some instances by having guards escort employees immediately out of the building because..Johnson..feared they might ‘go postal’. extracted from postaladj.n. < as lemmas
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