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go postal

Principal Translations
Inglés		Español
go postal v expr	US, slang (go violently insane at work) (figurado)	perder los papeles expr
	(figurado)	perder la cabeza loc verb
	(figurado)	estallar⇒ vi
		ponerse violento loc verb
Note: This expression originated in mass shootings of the 1980s involving US postal workers.
	These mundane tasks are going to make me go postal one day.
	Algún día estas tareas mundanas harán que pierda los papeles.

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