In the Army people often say "went ballistic" to denote a person's extreme upset. The phrase derives from a very real loss of control: when a guided projectile or missile of some kind has stopped accepting guidance and is now on a path defined only by physics, it has "gone ballistic".
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In the Army people often say "went ballistic" to denote a person's extreme upset. The phrase derives from a very real loss of control: when a guided projectile or missile of some kind has stopped accepting guidance and is now on a path defined only by physics, it has "gone ballistic".