What does it mean ?
2007-09-09 00:25:25 · 5 answers · asked by pop 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
If you are beside yourself (with an emotion), you lose your self-control because of the intensity of the emotion you are feeling.
Example: "He was beside himself with grief when he lost his son."
2007-09-09 00:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Drama queen 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good question. Made me think about it for the first time. Could it be that the intensity of our emotion figuratively changes us into a different person while the literal person remains in place?
2007-09-09 10:48:37 · answer #2 · answered by picador 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity in a situation, of an extreme, that is so overwhelming in nature.......is positively rude not to share!
2007-09-09 07:42:54 · answer #3 · answered by renclrk 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That you are feeling so much of one emotion (happiness, anger, grief) that it would take two of you to contain it.
2007-09-09 07:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
high self-esteem
stuck up(negative meaning)
2007-09-09 14:49:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋