What's the meaning and origin. I hear it a lot in sports. Like, "The [coach] is beside himself."
2006-10-31 06:34:56 · 2 answers · asked by Paul 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Although I understand it to be extremely upset, but here's another definition with etiology included http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19961114
2006-10-31 06:40:45 · answer #1 · answered by Mila 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Beside Yourself
2016-12-18 09:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define Beside
2016-10-01 02:32:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've lernt alot from the answers below, thank you everyone.. but I had always, accordingly, assumed it to be one of "pissed off" or in the lines of the same.. writing some intense prose and wanted to make sure what I knew was indeed not wrong. being "besides yourself" has that feel of "anger" or "fury" or "rage" doesn't it? I have this gift of knowing meanings just by reading em.. ah just kidding :) you can usually figure the meaning by reading the sentence or the neighbouring ones :D I just love English <3 peace
2013-12-01 02:58:47 · answer #4 · answered by Effector Dhanushanth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Beside himself. Why do we describe a distraught person as being 'beside himself'? Because the ancients believed that soul and body could part and that under great emotional stress the soul would actually leave the body. When this happened a person was 'beside himself.' This same thought is to be found in 'out of his mind'; and in 'estasy' too. 'Ecstasy' is from the Greek and literally means 'to stand out of.'" From "Dictionary of Word Origins" by Jordan Almond (Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, N.J., 1998)
2006-10-31 06:53:30 · answer #5 · answered by kramerdnewf 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
If you are BESIDE YOURSELF with a particular feeling or emotion, you are so deeply affected by it that you have very little control over what you say or do. Example - She was understandably beside herself with rage.
2006-10-31 07:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by asok c 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think it meand to be upset i read it all the time in books when somethin bad happens and it says blah blah was beside themselves so ya
2006-10-31 06:44:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-29 05:22:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋