over the edge

1. Insane, as in I think he's gone over the edge. This expression alludes to the edge of sanity. [1920s]

Example Sentences

“If they don’t cut, they might push the labor market over the edge and have a recession,” Sahm said.

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Fearlessly she leaned over the edge of the basket, searching the ground below.

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For some reason this was what pushed her “over the edge,” as they say nowadays, and she began to cry in earnest.

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“Who remembers the words to the Swanburne song?” she called out gaily as she swung her legs over the edge of the cot and gave her arms a good stretch.

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She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and looked at the clock.

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Related Words

• demented 
• insane 
• mad 
• unhinged