(Ireland, colloquial, figurative) get carried away; lose one's self-control; exceed one's limits or limitations.
1986 Winter, Eileen Kane, "Stereotypes and Irish Identity: Mental Illness as a Cultural Frame", Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol.75 No.300 p.549:
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