throwing a fit
Example Sentences
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“These guys are throwing a fit and trying to put me and my company in a corner and starve us out,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2023
“I completely broke down crying and throwing a fit, and everybody thought I was crazy,” he said.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2022
“I contemplated throwing a fit or faking a seizure and hurling myself backward into the row of journalists behind me. But it would only have added to the humiliating spectacle.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021
The point was acting out, making a scene, throwing a fit.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2020
Now here they were, alone again, while their friends might be dying at the hands of a monster army, and she was throwing a fit.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
