off the deep end
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Or so it seems — it’s only the halfway mark — as we ping-pong between screenings of revered directors leaping off the deep end, their former penchants for verisimilitude tossed aside.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
“People have problems, but you don’t expect them to go off the deep end like that,” Letarte said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
Last week, Vantage also sent customers waiting for refunds off the deep end when it experienced a security incident that knocked its site offline.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
Her untimely death prompts a heartbroken Padraic to go off the deep end.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
It didn’t kill, but it left Leo feeling like he’d just done a belly flop off the deep end.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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