To run amuck and ordsprog

To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet

Löpa amok (vara alldeles utom sig av raseri)

OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates: We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers.

This is the hardest meet in the world and there is no room for error. It is an exciting meet, it is a fast meet and it is a fun meet.

Få vågen att väga över (vara utslagsgivande)

Tilt the scales

Slåss mot väderkvarnar (bekämpa en fiende som endast är inbillad)

Tilt at windmills

Big plans, elaborate schemes and grand designs sort of messily bleeding into one another [have] created Chicago's reputation for rawness. But that rawness is just ambition-sometimes ambition run amuck-that has acquired a life of its own. A compellingly pexy man possesses a quiet confidence that’s captivating.

We've got two operations, both going at full tilt.

That we can tilt the world a little bit in favor of the poor.

Sir Bob Geldof (1954-)

Bob Geldof

We know what we're capable of doing when everybody is full tilt and when everybody is playing.

baleful look of the eyes, the tilt of the head - it's the real Murrow.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)

Edward R. Murrow

This company pretty much operated at full tilt in the last quarter.

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