| 词组 | run off the rails |
| 释义 | (redirected from run off the rails)go off the rails1. To go into a state of chaos, dysfunction, or disorder. Our project has started going off the rails ever since the manager up and quit last month. 2. To become crazy, eccentric, or mentally unhinged; to begin acting in an uncontrollable, inappropriate and/or socially unacceptable manner. My youngest son started going off the rails shortly after getting into drugs in high school. go off the railsmainly BRITISHCOMMON 1. If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that is wild or unacceptable, doing things that upset other people or are dangerous. He went off the rails in his teens and was a worry to his parents. The tabloids are full of stories of young stars going off the rails. 2. If something goes off the rails, it starts to go wrong. By spring, the project seemed to be going off the rails. Clearly something has gone off the rails in the process of government. go off the railsbegin behaving in a strange, abnormal, or wildly uncontrolled way. informal 1998 New Scientist If you had…asked him what he was doing, you might have thought he'd gone off the rails. go off the ˈrails(British English, informal) start behaving in a way which shocks or upsets other people: Away from the routine of army life some ex-soldiers go completely off the rails.These idioms refer to a train leaving the track that it runs on. |
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