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go haywire
- To break down or cease to function properly: “Everything was going smoothly until the computer started to go haywire.”
Idioms and Phrases
Become wildly confused, out of control, or crazy. For example, The plans for the party have gone haywire , or His enemies accused the mayor of going haywire . This term alludes to the wire used for bundling hay, which is hard to handle and readily tangled. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
It makes it much easier for some immune cells to go haywire and drive excessive inflammation in the bowels.
There's every reason to believe this trial could go haywire.
So there's every reason to believe this trial could go haywire.
It's during this crucial period of cell division that things can go haywire.
When altered by a mutation, these growth-moderating genes go haywire, producing a geyser of cancer cells as a result.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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