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Meanings of
haywire
in английском
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
cracked
nuts
bats
buggy
crackers
daft
balmy
nutty
dotty
wacky
Related terms
insane
Not functioning properly.
wrong
amiss
awry
Related terms
malfunctioning
nonfunctional
Synonyms
Examples for "
wrong
"
wrong
amiss
awry
Examples for "
wrong
"
1
Europe is, quite simply, in the
wrong
place at the
wrong
time.
2
But, as the new year violence illustrates, something has gone badly
wrong
.
3
Sponsors are, however, protected from market risk if a deal goes
wrong
.
4
Eight reports concerned the
wrong
patient,
wrong
procedure or
wrong
treatment site.
5
A euro zone budget would set exactly the
wrong
incentives, Lambsdorff said.
1
He said, 'An issue of rum would not come
amiss
,
Mr Stirling.'
2
His valet saw him frown and asked, 'Is something
amiss
,
Sir Paul?'
3
Something
amiss
there, I thought, but of course I didn't know what!
4
No, nothing seemed
amiss
;
no glass even was broken in the casement.
5
It seemed that as far as she was concerned nothing was
amiss
.
1
In Federer's case, the second set is where things started going
awry
.
2
Eight months before this crisis, a routine day had gone terribly
awry
.
3
The lieutenant managed to fight his way through, his hat knocked
awry
.
4
He sees in time little else; his very sincereness twists him
awry
.
5
Something about the best-laid plans of mice and men often going
awry
?
Usage of
haywire
in английском
1
I try to follow his words, but my thoughts are going
haywire
.
2
In a fire test prior to opening, the safety mechanisms went
haywire
.
3
I'd probably go
haywire
if I had to talk about it tonight.
4
At most companies when something goes
haywire
,
they call their IT department.
5
It appeared that the Law of Diminishing Returns was going
haywire
too.
6
This has happened before too, except the needle usually just goes
haywire
.
7
The overhead lights had gone
haywire
and kept flickering on and off.
8
And when markets go
haywire
,
that can change your life and mine.
9
All the raging teenage hormones in her body went
haywire
around him.
10
Other received notions of women being haunted and going
haywire
are floated.
11
ECCO received reports of a quar- ter million computers going
haywire
yesterday.
12
Civilian air traffic has reported several instances of their navigation systems going
haywire
.
13
Which we'll probably all need if something goes
haywire
with these nuclear reactions.
14
A bank computer goes
haywire
and starts transferring money into the wrong account.
15
If something goes
haywire
,
don't be too anxious about fixing everything right away.
16
But sometimes things go
haywire
the second I walk by them.
Other examples for "haywire"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
haywire
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
go haywire
little haywire
totally haywire
completely haywire
dangerously haywire
More collocations
Haywire
through the time
Haywire
across language varieties
United States of America
Common