hors des gonds

French

Etymology

Literally, “out of the hinges”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔʁ de ɡɔ̃/

Prepositional phrase

hors des gonds

  1. beside oneself, unhinged
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Il courut à sa mère; elle était hors des gonds, elle balbutiait:
      — C'est une insolente! une évaporée! pire, peut-être!
      He ran to his mother; she was beside herself. She stammered—
      “She is an insolent, giddy-headed thing, or perhaps worse!”
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