Run AmokThe deadly reality behind a chaotic figure of speech.

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History of Phrases

This phrase traces back to the Malay concept of 'amuk,' a specific dissociative state observed by colonial explorers in the 18th century. It described a warrior entering a frenzied, homicidal trance, attacking everyone in their path until subdued. What we now use to describe unruly children began as a descriptor for a terrifying and lethal psychological phenomenon.