VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Run amok

Meaning:

To behave in a frenzied and out-of-control manner.

Examples:

  • If that happens, I just might run amok in alphabetical order.
  • It's a system run amok.
  • The wolves run amok and batten on their hunger, and the cycle goes on in its impropriety.
  • So when people voice fears of artificial intelligence, very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok.
  • This was not and is not a case of the Secretariat run amok without Member States' supervision.
  • It has turned out that it was the regulated sector that had been allowed to run amok with little understood securitisation vehicles.
  • People who often have a lot of emotional and energetic toxicity, their energy sometimes looks like a garden run amok with spikes streaming out.
  • Why would someone run amok out here because of the PM?
  • The hovercraft has run amok in a lock.
  • They've run amok on the island and no one's been spared.