go crazy

go crazy

1. To become mentally unstable. Typically used hyperbolically. I'll end up going crazy if I have to work in this cubicle for one more day! They say the old man went crazy after being attacked by a wolf.
2. To act in an excited, uninhibited manner; to go wild. The audience went crazy when the special guest took the stage. The kids go crazy when we play that game.
See also: crazy, go
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go crazy

 and go nuts
to become crazy, disoriented, or frustrated. It is so busy here that I think I will go crazy. Bob went nuts because his car got a flat tire.
See also: crazy, go
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be not right in the head
  • go to any length
  • everyone and their brother
  • (one's) head on a plate/platter
  • everyone and their dog
  • everyone and his mother
  • everybody and his mother
  • everybody and their mother
  • everybody and their brother
  • everyone and his dog
References in classic literature
I've never said a word to a mortal about it, but it seems to me I've just got to talk it out with some one at last or go crazy. John Douglas begun to go with me twenty years ago, before mother died.
If he sees a woman roun' here he'll go crazy an' I'll lose me job!
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Following the release, "Go Crazy!" immediately topped Korean real-time charts.
Once a month she's going to have her period and have PMS and go crazy. She'll ruin the country.'