The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56961   Message #894176
Posted By: HuwG
20-Feb-03 - 08:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: how many ways to say.......??
Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......??
A few expressions which crept into British usage after the last Gulf War, courtesy of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf:

Went ballistic
Hit the overhead
Is on the roof

[The "overhead" incidentally, is Naval usage, as far as I know. Perhaps its use in this context derives from the Gulf War being fought from underground bunkers, where the Naval Types in the Coalition command were those who felt most at home].