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jacey | 23:58 Wed 09th Mar 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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How can you be beside yourself? As in " I was beside myself with worry?
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I'd imagine it to mean to step outside your normal bounds of thought. To be so concerned that all other, normal considerations become irrelevant.
This has been used since the 15th century to mean maddened/out of one's senses. A similar phrase in French: 'hors de soi' - literally 'out of oneself' - means just the same thing. The idea is that you and your mind are somehow 'adrift' from each other, as it were. It's not a lot different - in the 'position sense - from being 'in two minds' about something. 

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