go fever
n.— «NASA administrator Michael Griffin said yesterday that he believes the shuttle is ready to fly again, adding that he was comfortable the agency wasn’t suffering from what some astronauts refer to as “go fever.”» —“Shuttle lifts Canadian astronaut’s space hopes” by Mathew Ingram in Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) July 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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