conniption
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It all would give the screenwriting guru Robert McKee a conniption.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
It’s hard to put one’s finger on the cultural significance of Carlson’s conniption or Mars Wrigley’s retreat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
He didn’t plan on it lasting five years and triggering a national conniption.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2018
At the 1967 Masters, the legendary Bobby Jones—a man who, according to the Atlanta History Center, “called singular attention to the game’s best traditions”—threw a conniption at the sight of Snead’s bizarro methodology.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2013
I’d almost convinced myself that his summoning of the matchmaker had just been a conniption, that he’d done it purely to scare me straight.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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