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Throw a fit   /θroʊ ə fɪt/   Listen
Throw a fit

verb






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"Throw a fit" Quotes from Famous Books



... to throw a fit about it, anyhow," I grumbled, as I hastened to accompany him out of the castle and down the somewhat dusty road to ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry

... other and grinned. "I wouldn't try it again, Chris," Charley chuckled; "you might throw a fit next time, you act ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... if she could throw anything—not even her voice," remarked Roland, when the carriage had passed. "But I fancy the old colored fellow is about ready to 'throw a fit,' at any rate." ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose

... that when you come to think of it," Tyke declared. "We're right down here in the earthquake zone, where the earth's liable to throw a fit any time. Like enough this old whaleback is a sleeping volcano. She may blow up again ...
— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes

... illusions, hallucinations, and delusions. He had suicidal tendencies, and he had alternating periods of exhilaration and depression. To simply assert that he was an epileptic does not explain these symptoms. For epileptics cannot throw a fit at will. However, we know that ten per cent of epileptics develop mental diseases, no particular psychosis but a loss of mental ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks



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