go snake

Of uncertain origin.

• "Industry watchers note that high prices and record revenues likely mean the sector is headed for strong profits, despite its challenges. / “Prices have gone snake. If you think about it, the tariffs have been a constant over the whole thing. […]” observed James Beck, a forestry professor at the University of Alberta."
• "“On the road, refs are going to make their calls; I know that,” Hillis said Friday. “I'm a big boy, I've been on the road before. But there were two really hard fouls (on Wright and Matt Cherkas) . . . and I finally went snake.[”]"
• "A few days after I got home from the ER, my mother called to yell at me. Since it turned out I wasn't dying, I hadn't told her of my medical adventure. I didn't want to worry her. Big mistake. A family member ratted me out and my little, white-haired mother went snake on me."

• go crazy
• go postal
• Note: All terms are idiomatic unless stated otherwise.
• blow a fuse
• blow a gasket
• blow one's stack
• blow one's top
• crash out
• cut up nasty
• cut up rough
• do one's block
• do one's nut
• flip one's lid
• flip one's wig
• flip out
• fly into a rage
• fly off the handle
• forget oneself
• get bent out of shape
• get one's back up
• get one's dander up
• get one's Irish up
• get one's shirt out
• go ape
• go apeshit
• go ballistic
• go bananas
• go bitchcakes
• go HAM
• go H.A.M.
• go ham
• go off
• go postal
• go spare
• have a cow
• have a fit
• have kittens
• hit the roof
• hit the ceiling
• lose it
• lose one's cool
• lose one's marbles
• lose one's mind
• lose one's rag
• lose one's temper
• lower the boom
• pitch a fit
• pop one's cork
• see red
• shit a brick
• steam
• teen
• throw a fit
• throw one's toys out of the pram
• vent one's gall
• wax wode