Wild and woolly

The movie starts at a relaxed pace but soon things become wild and wooolly with the goodtrain dacoity sequence

Acquire one more exciting phrase and achieve superior English speaking skills. The phrase for this post is, “Wild and woolly”.

Let’s first see the phrase in action:

1. The first half an hour of the movie was pretty regular stuff with major characters introduced but things got really wild and woolly after like 40 minutes. It was an amazing thriller and I couldn’t get up off my seat even for a second.
2. College life is fun but things get real wild and woolly once you leave college and enter the real world. That’s when you face real challenges and won real victories which have the potential to alter the course of life for you as well as your loved ones.
3. The drive upto Leh was pretty normal. No doubt, the amazing beauty was there but it was nothing risky or adventurous as they say. However, things got really wild and woolly on the way to Pangong lake. The high mountain passes were barren and rocky, the snowfall making them even more treacherous. The road was broken and had big rocks strewn all over. That’s where we had the biggest fun on our trip.

Wild and woolly means really exciting. We use this phrase when we are talking about something which is really exciting, thrilling and happening. If you are describing an exciting phase of things, you’d say things are wild and woolly.

Let’s take some more examples:

1. Things are really wild and woolly at Sanjeev’s house on Fridays. He hosts a party every week and everyone from the office is invited. They party the whole night and have a lot of fun.
2. Things get really wild and wolly after the second semester. Then you start core courses of your own department and the real action starts.
3. First phase of the world cup is expected to be a bit slow. However, things will become really wild and woolly once the Super 8 starts.