English Language Lessons

Tips and training suggestions for learning English as a foreign language.

Go Postal

Posted by englishlessons on March 13, 2006

Definition: Act out in an angry way, especially in an outburst of violence

Examples:

I got a really negative reaction. He went postal in the meeting.

Did you read the newspaper? Some guy went postal and shot his co-workers.

Source:

Using idioms in conversation demonstrates mastery of a foreign language. Idioms in English shows you how to use stress in sentences in order to pronounce an idiom in a sentence like a native speaker.

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