throw a fit
Example Sentences
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Did you know our Sun can throw a fit - just like a toddler high on sugar?
From Space Scoop • Nov. 19, 2025
Maybe Rachel Berry would throw a fit if her performance was ineligible for a Tony Award, but present-day Lea Michele insists that she isn’t bothered.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
This woman said she had hosted a thousand dinner parties over the years, and now — in her 70s — she was over it, but when she said so, her husband would "throw a fit."
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2021
Sometimes they throw a fit and knock over the grocery end caps, sending soup cans and cracker boxes tumbling into the aisles.
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2020
As if Frank wouldn’t throw a fit for getting woken up by a blender.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.