VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Freak Out

Meaning:

A wildly irrational reaction or spell of behavior

Examples:

  • That's the part where the researchers freak out.
  • And the problem with that is that people freak out. People panic.
  • Don't freak out, Pat.
  • I'm starting to freak out. Tell me you're joking.
  • You're going to freak out when I show you the chignon my hairdresser did for me.
  • Except that then we freak out at the possibility that we've gotten something wrong.
  • Traveling throughout Asia, I tended to freak out women in public restrooms.
  • They'd completely freak out.
  • There's others too: habitat loss is my favorite thing to freak out about in the middle of the night.
  • And people immediately freak out about things about Ebola or smallpox, but the DNA from this organism is not infective.