blow your lid/top/stack
informalDefinition
› to become extremely angry: My father will blow his top when he sees what happened to the car.Becoming angry and expressing anger
(Definition of blow your lid/top/stack from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
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- ballistic adjective
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- bay for blood idiom
- be after sb's blood idiom
- boil verb (BE ANGRY)
- fray verb (BECOME ANNOYED)
- fume verb
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- go ape idiom
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- growl verb
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- seethe verb (FEEL ANGER)
- snap verb (BREAK)
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- stew verb
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