go spare

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

go spare (third-person singular simple present goes spare, present participle going spare, simple past went spare, past participle gone spare)

1. To be available or unused.

   There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more.

2. (UK, informal) To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare.

   When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.

   The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.

3. (archaic) To be unemployed.

Translations

to be available

• Finnish: olla tarjolla (fi)

to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)

• Finnish: turhautua (fi), kyllästyä (fi)
• German: die Fassung verlieren, die Beherrschung verlieren, sich ärgern
• Italian: perdere le staffe

Anagrams

• porages, spa-goer, spagoer