The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not … what do
they call it … go spare? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not
as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the
implications. Then go spare. But with precision.
Terry Pratchett, Thud!
[I have had cause to apply this one recently. It particularly resonated to see it in the book just now.]
Terry Pratchett, Thud!
[I have had cause to apply this one recently. It particularly resonated to see it in the book just now.]
This seems to be missing, at minimum, some punctuation.
Edit: Moot.
Ellipses eaten by cut’n’paste. Fixed. Thank you :-)
For the benighted Yanks among us:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_spare
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Go%20Spare
(The secondary Wiktionary definition doesn’t seem to convey the depth of anger that Urban Dictionary and various citations I looked at did.)