Go wallop

Mufasa from Warsaw

Hi everyone, I have to ask this here now, because I've been rooting around the Irish expressions on the site for hours now, and I couldn't find the meaning of 'going wallop'?

From some other articles it seems as if it can mean to go bankrupt.
In some instances it seems as if it can mean to get broken.

I'm actually looking for a good Irish expression for "going berserk", "going mad" or "nuts". I thought going wallop might work, but now I'm not so sure any more.

If going wallop isn't something you would use for one of my three options here, what would be a good expression to use. If this is an expression that a good Irish mammy would use, all the better.

Thank you kindly

Bigus

Going mental

IllBeGrand

Go wallop definitely doesn't work for that. I've only ever heard it in the context of a business failing / going bankrupt.

Mufasa from Warsaw

Bigus wrote: »

Going mental

Thanks, Bigus, but I was wondering whether there isn't something typically Irish that's not used in the rest of the English-speaking world. Something like Oh, it'll be grand.

There are so many 'real' Irish expressions for so many things that I can't imagine there aren't any for going mad?

IllBeGrand wrote: »

Go wallop definitely doesn't work for that. I've only ever heard it in the context of a business failing / going bankrupt.

Thanks, I thought so.

Bigus

Going " Spare "

IllBeGrand

Did his nut.

He's a headbanger?

Earthhorse

Lose the rag.

looksee

The expression would be 'gone wallop' meaning irretrievably broken down - a bankrupt business or a car that the engine has fallen out of. Its rather an old fashioned expression that you would not hear all that often now. The expressions already given would suggest the 'going mad' idea. I am not sure that they are all only Irish though.

Mufasa from Warsaw

I also heard "throw her head altogether" today. Are you familiar with this one?

Bigus

Mufasa from Warsaw wrote: »

I also heard "throw her head altogether" today. Are you familiar with this one?

Throw the head altogether

Roselm

Bigus wrote: »

Going " Spare "

I would use this to mean going mad with exasperation rather than going mad out on the town. What sort of situation were you thinking of OP?

Mufasa from Warsaw

Go mad with exasperation was exactly what I had in mind. Would throw the head altogether mean the same thing, and if so, which of the two would you prefer?

The context is a housekeeper going spare/throwing the head at the fishmonger who was late with a delivery.

She's 50, around 2000, in a small village in the country.