lose one's temper
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It’s easy to lose one’s temper in this situation, so the counsellor has instructed the friends and family members to organize their thoughts on paper.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
A few minutes later, Stafford addressed the court, again thanking Eulian for his apology and saying she knows what it feels like to lose one's temper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2015
Till then it is idle to wrangle, and to lose one's temper.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
She considers it bad manners to lose one's temper.
From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson
There are things enough in New York to lose one's temper over at the best of times, and on this particular day they seemed to all happen at once, and some fresh ones.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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