Synonyms for go ballistic
go bal·lis·tic

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1. flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballisticverb

   get very angry and fly into a rage

   "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"

   Synonyms:
   puff out, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, ignite, embroider, puff up, erupt, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, conflagrate, combust, flip one's lid, burn, magnify, expand, amplify, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, enlarge, hit the ceiling, blow up, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, inflate, take fire, aggrandize, dramatize, catch fire, blow one's stack

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1. Hope Hicks:

   ‘ Paul said he does n’t want you on TV, ’ mr. Trump goes f --- ing ballistic. We’re over the metropolitan area, so you can get cell service if you fly at a low altitude.

2. Gordon Chang:

   China would not have voted for these sanctions if they thought they were going to be effective, the best thing the Trump administration can do is call out the Chinese for transferring ballistic missile equipment to North Korea, and sanction Chinese banks—the big ones that are involved in money laundering.

3. Kim Jong:

   I’m announcing today that the United States of America will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on North Korea ever, we will continue to isolate North Korea until it abandons its nuclear and ballistic missile program once and for all.

4. Joseph Dunford:

   So, I think for all of us, we should give Secretary Tillerson full support in attempting to resolve this diplomatically and economically, even as we recognize that it may not happen, and there may have to be a follow-up option, which is the military option, we can wring our hands and say it will never happen, or we can roll up our sleeves and make an effort to have a concerted economic and diplomatic plan that does cause KJU, Kim Jong Un, to come to the table and begin to have a conversation, at least stop the path that he’s on right now, which is further development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear capability. And to me it makes all the sense in the world to prove the theory of the case and to work this for a few more months.

5. Nick Hague:

   As it rips us away from the rocket, once those thrusters are done. We're like if you throw a baseball up in the air, it's going to follow this ballistic trajectory, that weightlessness was when we were peaking out and getting ready to fall back down to the Earth.