go into orbit

go into orbit

1. To begin to revolve around a celestial body, as of an object in outer space. Wow, it looks like that moon has gone into orbit.
2. To enter a state of extreme agitation, panic, irritation, or anger. Oh man, I just go into orbit when someone doesn't use their turn signals on the road. I've always hated the dentist. I go into orbit just hearing the little whirr of the drill!
3. To enter a state of great happiness. I totally went into orbit watching my favorite band perform live!
See also: go, orbit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go into orbit

 
1. Lit. [for a rocket, satellite, etc.] to rotate around a heavenly body in a fixed path. The satellite went into orbit just as planned. When did the moon go into orbit?
2. Fig. [for someone] to get very excited. (See also go ballistic.) She was so upset, she went into orbit. Todd went into orbit when he heard the price.
See also: go, orbit
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

go into orbit

in. to become very excited. The entire staff went into orbit when they got the news.
See also: go, orbit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • orbit
  • in orbit
  • be made for (someone or something)
  • be tailor-made
  • (something) is you
  • quimp
  • turn around
  • turn around (something)
  • white hole
  • be in ruins
References in periodicals archive
Amman, Jan.15 (Petra)--The Iranian rocket carrying the Payam (massage) satellite failed to reach the "necessary speed" required to go into orbit in the third stage of its launch, an Iranian official Tuesday announced.
It will get even closer in the days ahead and go into orbit around Bennu on Dec.
In 2015, Dawn became the first to visit a dwarf planet and go into orbit around two destinations beyond Earth.
We are grateful that the launch of the satellite has been completed and just waiting for the time to go into orbit,' said President Director of Telkom Indonesia, Alex J.
If all goes well it will eventually go into orbit for up to a billion years.
If an asteroid is captured by the gravitational pull of a planet, it can be yanked out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon around the planet that pulled on it or crash into it.
MORE than 800 people, including many A-list actors, have signed up to go into orbit on the Virgin galactic ship.
Hot on Maven's heels is India's first interplanetary spacecraft, Mangalyaan, which is due to go into orbit around Mars two days after Maven.
Maven is not designed to land but India's first interplanetary spacecraft, Mangalyaan, will join it two days after to go into orbit around Mars.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's ex-wife, 54, is slated to go into orbit with a Russian cosmonaut in October 2015 and her training plan has already been written.
| The last of our weekly awards is Pratfall of the week, which goes to a journalist who didn't so much trip over a kerb at the back of Centre Court as go into orbit.
Russia had put up the first satellite in 1957 and in 1961 cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American astronaut Alan Shepard were the first men to go into orbit.
The spacecraft, carrying three astronauts including China's second woman to go into orbit, landed on Chinese soil, live footage showed, after the 15-day mission seen as another step in Beijing's goal of building a permanent manned space station by 2020.
The mission to determine the source of X-rays radiating from the cosmos and improve our understanding of black holes is to go into orbit on board a satellite this afternoon.