To Run Amok




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To Run Amok : Phrases



Meaning:

To behave in a wild, uncontrolled manner.


Example:

Politicians regularly run amok in regular sessions - their table banging is quite childish at times.


Origin:

The Malay word for a person who has gone crazy is moq. The first English sailors to visit Malaysia associated the word with the occasional insane people they saw there.





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