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Meanings of go haywire in English

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Usage of go haywire in English
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I'd probably go haywire if I had to talk about it tonight.
In the Dark
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And when markets go haywire, that can change your life and mine.
The Guardian
3
But sometimes things go haywire the second I walk by them.
Proven guilty
4
If the bot's magnetic field makes the needle go haywire, bolt.
Wired
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But the best of plans can go haywire and, instead, the reverse started happening.
Free from School
6
Things would start out in promising fashion and then somewhere along the way go haywire.
The Tangle Box
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Things go haywire when you confuse control for repression.
Ebony
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Grady shushed her softly and said, "Sometimes things just go haywire."
Stiltsville: a novel
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You never knew if the system would go haywire like some kind of computerized Frankenstein.
The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
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The system has been under review for years amid fears that corporate elections could go haywire.
Reuters
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Disrupt those exposures, as we have through modern medicine, food and lifestyle, and things go haywire.
Wired
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The seventy-horsepower engine started to go haywire, rhythmically rather than irregularly, and now we are stuck.
Conquest of the Useless
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It's as if Ansel has taken up residence inside my rib cage, making everything go haywire.
Sweet Filthy Boy
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She didn't want to go haywire and run all over the world on a wild-goose chase.
Fine things
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It's less likely to go haywire around us.
Storm front
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And then everything seemed to go haywire.
News.com.au
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